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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,725 works

Etching of a standing male figure leaning on a pillar, with a small child peering from the left side.

Dieppe, Quai Henri IV

Walter Sickert, 1915

Pencil and blue crayon sketch of a young boy with long hair sitting on a chair back, chin resting on his hand.

Two studies of a young boy: 1. Seated on back of chair. 2. Standing

Petrus van der Velden, 1867

Pen sketch of a battle scene with two warriors duelling, fallen soldiers, mounted riders and spectators with spears.

Untitled [Battle scene]

Richard Westall

Engraving of apostles laying hands on kneeling figures in a colonnaded square, with a dove of the Holy Spirit above.

St Peter, St John and St Philip Laying Their Hands on the Baptised at Samaria. From: The Acts of The Apostles, plate 10

Philips Galle, 1575

Engraving of lions, a tiger, ostriches and elephants in a rocky waterfall landscape, with hunters approaching the elephants.

Venationes ferarum, avium, piscium (Hunts of wild animals, birds and fish). Plate 13. Animals from Ethiopia and an el…

Jan Collaert the Younger, 1596

Pencil sketch of a street scene with a market stall under an awning, figures, and tall poles in the background.

Marken street scene

Petrus van der Velden, 1871

Pencil sketch of Gibson's Quay in Hokitika with moored sailing ships, a wooden wharf, waterfront buildings and distant mounta

Gibson's Quay, Hokitika

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Pencil sketch on sketchbook inner cover with rough headland, distant boats and handwritten names and notes.

Inner front cover of An Otira sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Engraved print of a sailing ship and rowing boat in rough harbour waters, with a town skyline under stormy clouds.

Portsmouth

Thomas Lupton, 1856

Pencil sketch of a man bending to shovel, with a small barrow sketched beside him on a sketchbook page.

Sketch of man shovelling from A Wellington sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1907

Hand-painted entomology plate XII showing moths, caterpillars and a cocooned pupa in labelled watercolour illustrations.

Original hand painted plate for the Manual of New Zealand Entomology [Plate XII]

George Hudson, 1886

Engraving of armored Perseus with a sword facing a kneeling figure, with shielded warriors and a fallen body beside classical

Perseus with the head of Medusa

Cherubino Alberti, 1570

Wood engraving page 'Concerning Dragons' with a saint spearing a dragon above five vignettes of a child, nurse and father.

Illustrations to 'Concerning dragons'

Eric Gill, 1919

Pencil sketch of a country cottage with half-timbered walls, a brick chimney, trees behind, and chickens by a gate.

Sketch (country cottage)

John North, 1915

Etched print of swords radiating around an ornate engraved shield, with pommels and hilts below.

Armour and swords

Jules Ferdinand Jacquemart, 1865

Etching of three storks standing near a stone wall under a cloudy sky, with the large bird in the foreground.

Les cigognes (The storks)

Félix Bracquemond, 1867

Drawn portrait of a bearded man with arms crossed in an oval vignette, dated 1856, on aged paper.

Portrait of William Brown

Charles Baugniet, 1856

Color woodblock print of pedestrians under striped umbrellas in heavy rain, with a dark-coated figure in the foreground.

Wet afternoon

Ethel Spowers, 1930

Watercolour of a calm sea with a wooded headland on the left and distant hills under a cloudy sky.

West Wanganui, looking N.E. from the North Channel

James Crowe Richmond, 1852

Sepia print of nude figures bathing at a wooded lake shore, with large trees framing the foreground.

The bathing pool

Percival Gaskell, 1910

Etching of three children on a patterned couch, one girl raising a finger, a boy with bare feet seated at left.

Once upon a time

H. Linley Richardson, 1925

Etching of a horseman in a plumed hat on a horse by a river, with a rocky cliff and tower on the left.

Four landscapes. Plate 4: River landscape with a horseman

Jacob Duck, 1660

Watercolour botanical study of a grey-leaved plant with clusters of small yellow flowers, labelled Ligusticum imbricatum.

Ligusticum imbricatum Hook.f. (now known as Anisotome imbricata (Hook.f.) Cockayne)

John Buchanan, 1865

Print of rooftops and gabled houses above a canal, with reflections in the water and a church spire in the distance.

Vitré: The canal

James McNeill Whistler, 1893

Watercolor plate with ten numbered illustrations of insects, larvae and cases, including winged adults and scale bars.

Original hand painted plate for New Zealand Neuroptera [Plate X]

George Hudson, 1904

Pencil sketch of two grazing cows in a field with a fence, trees and hills behind, on a sketchbook page.

sketch of cows grazing in An 1893 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Pastel drawing of a dusky town street with an autumn tree, pedestrians, gabled houses and a distant church spire.

Old Abroath

James Herald, 1905

Pencil sketch of a cow with its head in a bucket, with a smaller study of the same pose in the upper right.

Cow with head in bucket in An 1893 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Watercolour of farmworkers with rakes and animals harvesting hay in a flat open field under a cloudy sky.

Haymaking

Brown-toned lithograph of Auckland Harbour framed by trellis and trees, with a volcanic cone, a homestead and distant hills.

Entrance to Auckland Harbour from Brighton, Parnell