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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,725 works

Watercolour of a lake with rowing boats, rocky cliffs, snowy mountains and a white building on the shore.

Saltzberg, 1818

George Heriot, 1818

Etching of a riverside temple with spires, stone steps, moored boats, and a figure feeding birds in flight.

Feeding the birds

Ernest Stephen Lumsden, 1921

Head of an old man

Petrus van der Velden

Pencil drawing of a tall waterfall pouring down a rocky cliff through dense trees to a lake below.

Waterfall on the Wakatipu Lake

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Watercolour of a winding creek, a small white bridge, and wooded hills in a valley, by Nicholas Chevalier.

Tarohonga Creek, Rimutaka Road

Nicholas Chevalier, 1868

Pencil sketch on grey sketchbook page with hatched landscape forms and a torn edge, numbered 35 and 37.

Torn blank page. From: An 1876 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1876

Black and white lithograph of a woman in a straw hat seated at a table between two lit candles, hands clasped.

Waiting

John Singleton Copley, 1914

Etching of a flat fenland landscape with a dirt track leading to a town dominated by a large cathedral tower.

The Isle of Ely

Henry Brown, 1916

Etched landscape of a dense forest on a rocky ledge, with two figures and a dog crossing a plank over a stream.

Large upright landscapes. The little hunchback

Anthonie Waterloo, 1600

Grey wash botanical drawing of a branching plant with slender stems, small leaves and clusters of flowers and pods.

Carmichaelia solandri Simpson

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Line print of a haloed bearded figure offering a chalice to two seated nude and draped figures before a brick wall.

Adam and Eve in Heaven / The public-house in Paradise

Eric Gill, 1927

Monochrome print of a hillside street with steps, cypress trees, a stone building on the right, and a church at the top.

The hill to San Miniato, Florence

Ethel Gabain, 1911

Engraved print of a Gothic church west end with a large tracery window, twin spires, gravestones, and two figures with a dog.

West end of Snettisham Church, Norfolk

John Sell Cotman, 1815

Watercolor of a river valley with snowy mountains receding into hazy distance and forested slopes on the right.

View up Waimakariri from Bealey township, Mt Davie in distance

William Marshall Cooper, 1865

Watercolor drawing of a stone vaulted interior with arches, barred windows, wooden doors and an iron railed gallery.

Sunderland

C F Maltby, 1826

Engraved bust-length portrait of a bearded man with curly hair and a high collar, with Latin text above and below.

Philip Melanchthon

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1540

Pencil sketch of a valley with a large tree, rolling hills, a small standing figure and a fence line.

Waikanae Valley and river

William Swainson FLS FRS, 1849

Monochrome botanical print of a Banksia dentata branch with serrated leaves and a cylindrical flower spike.

Banksia dentata Linnaeus f

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Loose pencil sketch of a horse and cart with a standing figure on a sketchbook page.

Sketch of horse and cart in A Wellington sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1907

Etching of a young child in a white dress holding an apple, seated before dense tree foliage, with a second apple on the grou

Child with an apple

Andrew Geddes, 1800

Printed page from the Nuremberg Chronicle with two woodcut portraits of men and dense black and red text.

Sexta etas mundi. Page from Liber Chronicarum [The Nuremberg Chronicle] fol. CCLVI

Schedel Hartmann, 1493

Etching of a woman embracing a young child who leans against her, with curtains and dark hatched background.

Ninette

William Lee-Hankey, 1928

Engraved view of the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park with a carriage, a rider, strollers and a large tree.

View of the building in Hyde Park for the great exhibition, 1851

George Berger, 1851

Pencil drawing of tall forest trees and a tree fern beside a river, with two people paddling a canoe.

Scene on the Hutt River

William Swainson FLS FRS, 1845

Watercolour of a river beside a pale cliff and windswept tree, with forested mountains and a small sailboat on the water.

Hawks Crag, Buller River

William Marshall Cooper, 1873

Monochrome print of a horned demon on a cross above a nude woman with outstretched arms, flanked by candles.

Le Calvaire (Calvary)

Félicien Rops, 1880

Hand-colored print of a nude woman in stockings within an ornate oval frame of cherubs, roses and banners, by Félicien Rops.

Les exercices de dévotion de Monsieur Henri Roch

Félicien Rops, 1882

Brown wash drawing of a steep rocky mountain above a river and trees in a valley.

Castle Crag, Borrowdale

John Constable, 1806

Watercolor and pencil landscape of a winding river crossing plains toward distant hills, with rocks and buildings in the fore

The Mataura River and the Waimea Plains from Mr McNeill's station

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Pencil sketch of a low cottage with a figure beside it, set against rolling mountains, on blue-grey sketchbook paper.

Sketch of cottage in an Otira sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893