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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,725 works

Ink and wash drawing of a naked infant among reeds, watched by a woman in white and kneeling figures beneath a winged figure.

Moses in the bullrushes

Robert Porter, 1799

Etching of the Pont-Neuf bridge in Paris with stone arches, wooden scaffolding, small boats on the river, and a cloudy sky.

Le Pont-Neuf

Charles Meryon, 1861

Pencil sketch of two standing men in workwear, one in three-quarter view with a moustache and one seen from behind.

Two studies of a man with pole: 1. A pair, side and back view. 2. Holding pole over shoulder

Petrus van der Velden, 1867

Watercolor street scene of a sunlit town road lined with gabled buildings, shop awnings, and a distant church spire.

Street scene

Hugh Bellingham-Smith

Etching of a narrow old Edinburgh street with tall buildings, stone steps, chimneys and pedestrians on cobblestones.

The Edinburgh set. Old Edinburgh

Albert Fullwood, 1906

Watercolor of a thatched cottage beside a brook, with a boy on the path, sitting figures, and large trees.

Brook and cottage

Grey wash drawing of a stone castle facade beside a gravel path, with tall trees on the left and small figures and a dog.

Greystoke Castle

Thomas Hearne, 1777

Pencil sketch of a mud cottage beside a winding road, framed by tall trees, with hills and a distant bay beyond.

View of a mud cottage on the road to an unknown bay

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Ink botanical drawing of a Lepidium plant with pinnate leaves and clustered flower heads on tall stalks.

Lepidium matau Petrie ( male plant). (Now known as Lepidium solandri Kirk.)

John Buchanan, 1865

Watercolor of a Gothic street scene with ornate stone facades, a spire, and market figures with pottery under a striped awnin

A street, Bruges

Samuel Prout, 1818

Etching of a narrow Edinburgh-style street with old buildings, a grocer shop, pedestrians and reflections in wet paving.

The Edinburgh set. Edinburgh

Albert Fullwood, 1906

Sketch of female figure. From: A Marken sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1871

Pencil sketch of a pioneer camp with horses, a canvas wagon, tents, soldiers and a tree on open rolling ground.

Pioneer Camp Trescault

George Butler, 1914

Parapercis colias

Frank Edward Clarke, 1871

Watercolor sketch of a man in a top hat leaning on a railing beside a woman in a blue dress on a deck.

Langham sketching club

George Pinwell, 1867

Hand painted entomology plate with numbered beetles, insect larvae and a caterpillar, each with a scale bar, on cream paper.

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

George Hudson, 1886

Pencil sketch of a landscape with rocky ground, hills and angular boat sails, with handwritten notes on a sketchbook page.

Sketch of landscape and boat elements. From: A Marken sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1871

Watercolour of a tall waterfall falling over layered rock ledges into a pool, framed by trees and boulders.

Waterfall, Granite Creek

William Marshall Cooper, 1873

Engraving of Dover: rowers in boats in rough sea, a hilltop castle above white cliffs and a town, under stormy clouds.

Dover

Thomas Lupton, 1856

Pencil sketch of mountains above a calm lake, with cattle grazing on the shore and trees in the foreground.

Loch Katrine

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Watercolor landscape of cattle wading in water beside a tree, with hills and a pink evening sky behind.

Landscape with cattle

Thomas Richardson

Etching of a helmeted warrior gesturing to a seated bearded man beside soldiers with spears under a tree.

Diogenes and Alexander

Salvator Rosa, 1662

Watercolour landscape of green and ochre hills and distant blue mountains under a cloudy sky, inscribed Collingwood Goldfield

On Collingwood Goldfields

James Crowe Richmond, 1869

Mezzotint of a draped woman in a headscarf reading an unrolled scroll beside a classical column in a paneled interior.

Sibylla Delphica. From the portfolio: The Work of E. Burne-Jones

Edward Burne-Jones, 1877

Watercolour of a man in a draped robe holding ostrich feathers on a beach, with camels and a ship behind him.

Arabian Jew - selling ostrich feathers

Major General Horatio Robley, 1886

Colourful lithograph still life of a green vase with red stems, a glass decanter, a yellow jug and a patterned grey bowl.

Arrangement of jugs

Frances Hodgkins, 1938

Watercolor of a calm harbor with houses, palm trees, green hills, flying birds and a boat at the right edge.

Honolulu from the town

George Sherriff

Watercolour of a lake shore with blue mountains, flax plants on a rocky foreground, and cattle grazing in the distance.

Mount Aspiring, Lake Wanaka

James Crowe Richmond

Grey wash landscape of a lake with wading cattle, rocky shore, wooded hills and mountains under clouds.

Lake scene

Watercolour of a calm inlet with wooded hills, flax and grasses in the foreground, and a pale cloudy sky.

West Wanganui looking North East

James Crowe Richmond, 1862