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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,725 works

Drawing of a medieval town with a tall tower, carved timber house, cobbled street, and a castle on a hill.

Braubach

Black and white drawing of a stone farmhouse with a cart, three geese, and a leafy tree in a courtyard.

Farmhouse

Watercolour and pencil drawing of the Bargate gateway at Southampton, with a stone arch, towers and figures in the street.

Bargate, Southampton

David Roberts, 1828

Scorpaena cardinalis ( Red Scorpion fish)

Frank Edward Clarke, 1874

Etching of a park with bare trees, a small building, scattered figures and animals on an open lawn.

Le parc Monceau

Pierre Bonnard, 1937

Watercolour landscape of a rocky mountain ridge, a waterfall on a cliff, bare trees and a stormy sky.

Landscape 1873

John Gully, 1873

Watercolor of a leaning tree, a grazing white cow and a rustic farm building under a cloudy sky.

Hutt Valley landscape

Grey wash drawing of a large tree, stone wall and steps descending to a seated figure, with hills beyond.

Landscape with sloping steps

Pencil drawing of a bearded standard bearer in a wide-brimmed hat holding a staff, with a large flag behind him.

Standard bearer

Petrus van der Velden

Watercolor of a narrow cobbled street with stone houses, a lantern, and a woman with a basket beside hanging laundry.

Carnglaze St.

Owen Merton, 1910

Watercolor landscape with a large spreading tree in the foreground, wooded hills and a meadow beyond under a pale sky.

Wooded landscape

John White Abbott

Watercolor of a three-masted sailing ship under white sails battling choppy blue seas beneath a stormy grey sky.

Old style ship, "Kenilworth"

James Crowe Richmond, 1857

Watercolor illustration of a slender sea pike fish with sharp teeth and annotated fin counts on cream paper.

Sphyraena novaehollandiae : Snook

Frank Edward Clarke

Watercolor of a rocky coastline with mountains and forest under a grey cloudy sky, with choppy sea in the foreground.

White Rock Point, at the mouth of the Grey

James Crowe Richmond, 1862

Watercolour street scene with angular pink and green houses, cobblestones, a utility pole and a grey-blue sky.

Scene in Berkshire

Raymond McIntyre, 1920

Etching of a wild rabbit hanging upside down by its hind legs, with fine hatched lines rendering the fur.

Le lapin de garenne (The wild rabbit)

Félix Bracquemond

Watercolour drawing of three figures under a tree with a resting dog, one man seated holding a tankard and cane.

Three figures and a dog

Watercolor of a calm alpine lake framed by forested slopes and snow-capped mountains, with a small island and distant boat.

(Mt McIntosh), Lake Wakatipu, Otago

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Black-and-white wood engraving of a hansom cab with pigeons, a bicycle, a birdhouse and a sun over trees.

The hansom cab

Eric Ravilious, 1935

Pencil sketch of a wooden houseboat on a shore with figures, reeds, hanging laundry and a tall pole.

Dutch house boat

Petrus van der Velden

Woodblock print of a red-robed priest and a samurai facing crashing waves, with a sailing ship and a hand rising from the sea

Courageous Warriors (Musha burui): 14: Hino Kumawaka and the priest calling back the boat

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1883

Hand-coloured print of diners startled as a woman in yellow rises to ring a bell beside the fireplace.

Company shocked at a lady getting up to ring the bell

James Gillray, 1804

Etched self portrait of a man with swirling hatched hair and a rough, expressive face, turned toward the viewer.

Self portrait for Till Uilenspiegel

Walter Gramatté, 1925

Watercolour of a river with a rowing boat and sailboat, forested banks and snow-capped mountains in the distance.

On the Bealey, Canterbury, N.Z.

Ernest Arthur Chapman

Etching of a large ship's hulk on a misty harbour, with smoke rising, weathered posts in the foreground and mudflats.

Breaking up of the Great Eastern No. 1

Frank Short, 1890

Watercolour of men in turbans selling piles of oranges under a pale arcade, with a melon and a robed figure nearby.

The orange sellers, Tangiers

Frances Hodgkins, 1905

Charcoal sketch of a seated woman reading an open book in a dim interior, signed P. van der Velden.

Woman reading

Petrus van der Velden, 1871

Pencil sketch of a wooden bridge over a river with a snow-capped mountain and trees behind it.

The Bealey's bridge

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Watercolor drawing of a man in dark traditional Dutch-style clothing with wide hat, blue neckerchief and clogs.

A man in Marken costume (Fisherman)

Petrus van der Velden

Red chalk drawing of elegant figures in a garden with a terrace, trees, and a child in the foreground, by Charles Conder.

The guitariste

Charles Conder, 1900