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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,725 works

Etching of a young woman in a gown reading an open book propped on a cushion beside a column.

Young woman reading

Angelica Kauffmann, 1770

Pencil and white-highlight sketch of a river valley with wooded slopes and snow-capped mountains beneath a pale sky.

Looking up the Bealey. Arthurs Pass looking north

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Watercolour of hazy blue mountains and rounded rocky hills with a shrub in the foreground under a pale sky.

Mountains and rocks, Wanaka

James Crowe Richmond, 1867

Watercolor of a terrace with stone walls, a cat, trees and red hills beyond a blue sea, by Frances Hodgkins, 1933.

Ibiza, Balearic Islands

Frances Hodgkins, 1933

Watercolor landscape of tall trees framing a distant village with a church tower beside a pond, by George Clausen.

At Finchingfield

Watercolour of a large rata tree with red branches and dense green foliage above a pale sandy mound and shrubs.

Rata, Taranaki

James Crowe Richmond

Watercolor drawing of a mottled brown weedfish in side view with spiny fins, labelled with fin counts and a Tasmanian localit

Possibly Cristiceps australis (Tas) : Weedfish

Frank Edward Clarke, 1867

Watercolour of ships and steamers in misty harbour water at sunrise, with a pale sun low on the horizon.

Winter morning, Wellington Harbour

James Nairn, 1900

Watercolour of tall trees and ferns on a riverbank with a broad river and distant blue hills under a cloudy sky.

On the North East bank of the Buller

James Crowe Richmond, 1862

Watercolor of a dark river among rocky boulders with a sunlit mountain rising in the background under a pale sky.

River Acheron

James Crowe Richmond, 1864

Pen-and-ink print of a harbour with a wooden raft, timber buildings, figures on the quay and a tower on the right.

The Lusitania Raft on Broadstairs Pier

Frank Short, 1920

Watercolour of white yachts moored in a winding blue harbour channel, framed by green fields and a pink sky.

Yachts in Bosham Harbour

Raymond McIntyre

Watercolor of Lake Taupo with tan hills, a sailing canoe with figures, and cormorants on a driftwood branch.

Te Rapa, Lake Taupo

Reverend John Kinder, 1862

Watercolour of a cart pulled by a white horse and oxen on a track above a stream, with a woman and child riding and sheep res

The wagon

Watercolour of a snow-capped volcano above mountain ranges, with farmland fields and yellow shrubs in the foreground under a

Mount Egmont and Pouakai, from New Plymouth

James Crowe Richmond, 1858

Watercolor and pencil illustration of a New Zealand sole flatfish with fins detailed and handwritten fin counts above.

Peltorhamphus novaezeelandiae (NZ) : New Zealand sole

Frank Edward Clarke, 1875

Torquigener glaber (Tas) - Pufferfish

Frank Edward Clarke

Watercolor evening landscape with large trees, grazing sheep, a cottage and a rose-tinted sky over distant hills.

Evening landscape

William Westall, 1819

Watercolor of rolling hills sloping toward a blue sea under a pale cloudy sky, with dark shrubs and green fields.

Hill landscape near Wellington

Owen Merton, 1908

Pale watercolour of a French town street with half-timbered houses, a distant tower, a tricolour flag and two pedestrians.

Street scene

Watercolour of a multi-arched stone bridge over a river, with a rocky hillside, buildings and two small figures.

A bridge near Rome

William Crouch, 1817

Etching of a bob-haired young woman holding a wine bottle by a window with shutters and shelves of bottles behind her.

La fille au litre (Young woman with a litre wine bottle)

Jean-Émile Laboureur, 1921

Sepia aquatint of Manerbawr Castle with round towers, a gateway, a horse cart, figures on a hill and ships at sea.

Manerbawr Castle in Pembrokeshire, from Twelve Views in Aquatinta from Drawings taken on the Spot in South Wales

Paul Sandby, 1775

Watercolour of a mountain gorge with a timber trestle bridge under construction and a steam locomotive on the slope.

Bridge in construction, Amuri

James Crowe Richmond

Watercolour of a forested valley with layered blue mountains receding under a hazy sky, framed by flax and a dead tree.

Bush scene

James Crowe Richmond

Watercolour of a busy market street with awnings, stone buildings and women in long dresses walking past stalls.

The market place, San Remo, Italy

Frances Hodgkins, 1902

Watercolor landscape with a stone bridge, waterfall, large tree, thatched cottage and figures under a hazy evening sky.

Landscape with bridge and waterfall

Thomas Walmsley

Watercolor of a sandy beach below eroded limestone cliffs, with surf and offshore rocks and two small walking figures.

Limestone Beach S. of Woodpecker Bar

William Marshall Cooper, 1873

Watercolor of misty ridges and distant volcanic peaks under a warm hazy sky, with a dead tree in the foreground.

Tongariro, Ngauruhoe and Ruapehu, Central North Island

John Gully, 1866

Watercolor and pencil drawing of a rocky valley with shrubs, a stream, and mountain peaks under pale clouds.

View of Mount Cook

Margaret Stoddart, 1930