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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,725 works

Watercolour of a calm valley lake fringed by reeds and yellow trees, with blue hills under a pale cloudy sky.

Hutt Valley

James Nairn, 1895

Watercolor drawing of a tench fish in side view with red fins, with handwritten notes and a signature on cream paper.

Tinca tinca (Tas) : Cyprindae family

Frank Edward Clarke, 1868

Watercolor landscape of a calm river with tall trees, a blue hillside and green meadows under a grey sky.

Silverstream

James Nairn, 1896

Pencil sketch of a muscular man leaning over two women, one reclining and one crouching, on pale paper.

Sketch no. 1: A man threatening two women

Pen and watercolour drawing of a pink-roofed cottage behind a bare tree and blue shrubs, with a garden path in front.

Cottage and garden

Raymond McIntyre

Engraving of two winged women and a helmeted winged warrior with a sword in a dark, glowing landscape.

Eve's dream - Satan aroused (from John Milton's Paradise Lost)

John Martin, 1823

Galaxias olidus ( Mountain trout)

Frank Edward Clarke, 1867

Pencil sketch of a river valley with a tree fern, rocky riverbed, bush-covered hills and open pasture beyond.

Waiwakaiho River, Taranaki, looking up from Richardson's

James Crowe Richmond

Charcoal sketch of four men in caps gathered at a café table with wine glasses and playing cards, on tan paper.

The card players

Frances Hodgkins, 1922

Watercolor drawing of a red wrasse with spotted blue-green fins on cream paper, with handwritten fin counts above.

Pseudolabrus miles (Kelp)

Frank Edward Clarke, 1876

Watercolour of a calm lake with a wooded shoreline and hazy mountains under a cloudy sky.

Boat harbour, Te Anau

James Crowe Richmond, 1887

Watercolour of a rural road with a toll gate, large tree, horse and cart, windmill and brick house under a cloudy sky.

Old English toll gate

Richard Neave, 1840

Watercolour of wooden huts, a tall chimney and a figure on a dirt road beneath a wooded hillside.

Landscape with huts

Alfred Walsh, 1909

Pastel drawing of a red-haired girl in a white dress gazing up at a wicker bird cage while holding a blue dish.

The bird cage

Edward Stott, 1905

Watercolor drawing of a green kelp-fish in side view with blue-green scales and a coral-pink pectoral fin, 1889.

Notolabrus fuscula (NZ) : Wrasse

Frank Edward Clarke, 1889

Pencil sketch of a river scene with timber buildings, a horse-drawn carriage, figures on the bank and a small boat.

Whangaehu

Nicholas Chevalier, 1868

Watercolour of a rocky gorge with a rushing river, sunlit orange cliffs, and tall trees under a pale blue sky.

The Acheron River

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Pencil sketch of a stranded ship on a sandy beach with figures, footprints, and distant hills.

The Montezuma on the beach near Hokitika

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Colour lithograph of Otira Gorge with a coach on a road, a river, dense forest and a snow-capped mountain.

New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive. Otira Gorge, West Coast Road

Charles Decimus Barraud, 1877

Watercolour of a grey-blue sea with a dark headland, a distant sailboat, and a seabird under a cloudy sky.

Headland near Greymouth

James Crowe Richmond

Hippocampus abdominalis (Tas) : Seahorse

Frank Edward Clarke, 1867

Watercolor of a fruit stall with oranges and a robed man, with sailboats on the sea behind, signed OM 1907.

Fruit stall, Port Said

Owen Merton, 1907

Watercolour of a snow-capped conical mountain above brown and rust scrub with a bare dead tree under a blue sky.

Mount Egmont

Dorothy Richmond, 1929

Watercolor drawing of a brown flatfish with handwritten fin counts and locality notes on cream paper.

Possibly Ammotretis sp (Tas) : Flounder

Frank Edward Clarke, 1868

Watercolor landscape of tall trees over a sunlit golden meadow with distant blue hills, signed James Nairn 1898.

Summer

James Nairn, 1898

Charcoal sketch of a woman in a pale dress at a piano with sheet music and a candle, a standing figure at left.

Musicians

Petrus van der Velden

Ink and watercolour drawing of flowers in a blue vase before an oval mirror reflecting ferns, on a wooden table.

Flowers with a mirror

Raymond McIntyre

Pencil sketch of a winding river through scrub and open plains, with distant hills under a pale sky.

Waiwakaiho River, Taranaki looking to mouth

James Crowe Richmond, 1858

Pastel portrait of a woman with dark bobbed hair and white blouse against a textured green background.

Portrait of the artist's wife

James Nairn, 1901

Pencil drawing of a standing woman in a bonnet and long skirt, with a shawl draped over her arm, on cream paper.

Dutch woman

Petrus van der Velden, 1870