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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,725 works

Watercolor of a calm lake curving past rocky shore and grass toward blue hills and trees under a pale sky.

Rotoiti, near the outfall

James Crowe Richmond

Pencil sketch of a standing man in a brimmed hat and coat, holding a rifle and leaning on a block.

A mountaineer

Petrus van der Velden

Watercolour of a calm river with wooded banks, reflections in the water, and soft grey hills under a pale sky.

The Thames near Chertsey

John Gendall, 1827

Watercolour landscape of rolling hills, dense forest, small buildings and a winding path under a cloudy sky.

The Wairoa, Tarawera

Reverend John Kinder, 1857

Watercolour of an armoured knight in a dark cave with winged fairy figures hovering above and figures in the foreground.

Untitled (Knight and fairy creatures)

Richard Corbould

Watercolour of a small sailboat on rippling harbour water with sandbanks and ochre hills beyond.

Porirua Harbour

James Nairn, 1894

Watercolor of a riverside village with moored boats, a leafy arch, and houses with brown roofs beside a river.

On the River Severn

Frances Hodgkins, 1932

Watercolor of a misty fiord and calm lake with steep mountains, autumn trees on the left and a small sailboat.

Middle Fiord, Te Anau Lake

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Black and white woodcut of Polperro harbour with whitewashed cottages, moored sailing boats and figures on a stone quay.

Polperro, Cornwall

Roland Hipkins, 1910

Pencil sketch of bushland with a large tree on a hillside and an open sky, dated 1851.

Rimu, Taranaki

James Crowe Richmond, 1851

Pen and watercolor sketch of women in hats queuing by a wagon as an elephant's head rises at the right.

Tickets for the elephant

Raymond McIntyre, 1922

Seriolella punctata (Tas) : Silver warehou

Frank Edward Clarke, 1867

Watercolour of a calm lagoon with forested hills, driftwood on a sandy shore, and a lone cabbage tree.

Lagoon, Grey River

James Crowe Richmond, 1862

Watercolor of golden haystacks in a field with tall trees, rolling hills, farm buildings and a distant sea under cloudy sky.

Harvest field, Normandy

Walter Crane, 1904

Watercolour of birch trees in a grassy field under a pale lavender sky, with loose violet and green washes.

Black birch

Dorothy Richmond, 1908

Watercolor of five women in long dresses on a grassy hilltop under a pale blue sky.

The hilltop

Frances Hodgkins, 1908

Watercolour and pen drawing of a mottled brown mudfish with a top-down outline below, labelled Neochanna weldii, 1870.

Neochanna apoda (apoda)

Frank Edward Clarke, 1870

Soft-toned portrait drawing of a mustached man with upturned eyes, sketched on pale tinted paper.

Portrait of Dr. Frank Hay

Mina Arndt, 1925

Watercolor of a calm bay with dark rocks, a distant headland, a small sailboat, and a pale cloudy sky.

Titahi Bay

James Nairn, 1894

Watercolor of snowy mountains above grassy hills, boulders and shrubs in the foreground under a blue sky.

Landscape with mountain and gully

Watercolor illustration of a striped blackfish in side view with handwritten fin counts and measurements above it.

Girella tricuspidata (NZ) : Blackfish

Frank Edward Clarke, 1896

Pen and watercolour sketch of a street with a figure in ochre standing in a doorway and small figures walking at left.

Street scene with figures in a doorway

Raymond McIntyre

Misty watercolour of a calm water expanse, rolling hills and three small trees on a ridge, signed Stoddart 1902.

Cornish landscape

Margaret Stoddart, 1902

Nemadactylus macropterus (NZ) : Tarakihi

Frank Edward Clarke, 1867

Watercolor of a procession of elephants with riders and howdahs moving through tall grass under a pale sunset sky, with birds

Drive through the jungle at Devan Sarai

Nicholas Chevalier, 1870

Watercolour of Venice showing the St Mark's campanile, Doge's Palace, gondolas and sailing boats on a canal.

Venice from St. Giorgio

William Callow, 1892

Watercolour of pale eroded sea cliffs with a rock arch above turquoise waves under a cloudy sky.

Seascape

William Marshall Cooper

Watercolor drawing of a skate seen from above, with small detail sketches of an eye and teeth on a cream sheet.

Rajidae (Skate)

Frank Edward Clarke

Black and white wood engraving of a rooster with a long tail inside a circular border of tulips, clover and wheat.

Cockerel

Eric Ravilious, 1931

Watercolour of a snow-capped mountain above rolling hills, with a stockade of buildings and a tower and a rider on a track.

Waihi Stockade

George Sherriff