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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,725 works

Watercolour of a busy harbour with a steamer, sailing boats, masted ships and a city skyline with church towers.

Sydney

George Sherriff

Blenniidae (Tas) : Blenny

Frank Edward Clarke, 1866

Watercolor of a calm river with water lilies, golden trees reflected in the water and cumulus clouds above.

Pangbourne Woods, Upper Thames

Watercolour of a Gothic church with a tall tower before a blue mountain, framed by trees and meadow.

Malvern

James Bourne, 1809

Etching of a moored sailing barge and rowing boats on water before riverside houses and the Adam and Eve inn sign.

The Adam and Eve Inn, Chelsea

Edwin Edwards, 1872

Watercolour of a blue alpine lake beneath snowy mountains, with tussock plains and rocks in the foreground.

Tekapo Lake

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Watercolour of a lake outlet with moored boats, a small green-roofed building, tall trees and hills under a cloudy sky.

Lake Taupo outlet

Watercolor of an estuary with sandy tidal flats, shallow reflective water and a row of trees under a pale sky.

Estuary shores

Margaret Stoddart, 1930

Brown wash drawing of trees and foliage beside a stone wall, with pale sky breaking through the branches.

Fairy dell

Petrus van der Velden

Watercolor of a village street with stone cottages, a church tower, small figures on a dirt road, and hills in haze.

Landscape with cottage and church

Conrad Martens, 1831

Brown wash drawing of a seated old man in an armchair, with a sailing ship and harbour figures beyond him.

Old mariner

Petrus van der Velden

Watercolour of a snow-capped mountain above a valley and river, with rocks, shrubs and grazing sheep in the foreground.

Mt. Cook

Charles Decimus Barraud, 1884

Watercolour and pencil drawing of cows in a farmyard by a milking shed, with cloudy sky and green hills behind.

The first seven of seventy, evening milking

Dorothy Richmond, 1934

Woodblock print of Mount Fuji above misty hills, with pack horses and travelers on a path in the foreground.

Kōshū Inumetōge (Inume Pass in Kai Province). From the series: Fugaku sanjuo (Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji)

Katsushika Hokusai, 1830

Tetraodon gillbanksii Clarke

Frank Edward Clarke, 1870

Watercolour of a two-storey timber house with verandahs among trees, Stevenson's House at Vailima, Apia, Samoa, 1898.

Stevenson's House, Vailima, Apia, Samoa

William Francis Herring, 1898

Watercolor of a village street with a gabled house, picket fence, tall trees, and figures with two dogs.

Village Street

Watercolour of an old townhouse with arcaded ground floor and dormer windows, figures walking under the arches.

Moulin St. Lavoir, Chartres

Watercolor of a shadowed road with trees, a red wall and archway, and a donkey with panniers walking toward it.

El Puerlie del Cano

Arthur Melville

Black and white wood engraving of a crowing rooster in a grassy field beside a tree, under stylised clouds.

Chanticleer

Eric Ravilious, 1930

Watercolor of a sunlit street with a lamp post, empty road, rounded trees and low buildings under a pale sky.

Street scene

Nannoperca australis (Tas) : Eel

Frank Edward Clarke, 1870

Watercolour of moored fishing boats and figures beside a quay in calm, hazy harbour water under a pale sky.

Quiet evening, Concarneau

Terrick Williams

Ink and wash drawing of a street with an organ grinder beside a barrel organ cart and a man on crutches.

London street with organ grinder

Raymond McIntyre, 1917

Red chalk sketch of a seated woman by a tree with a resting cow in the grass at lower right.

La Normandie

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, 1893

Watercolor of a stone church with a square tower beside village houses across an open field under a pale sky.

Morston Church, Norfolk

Pencil sketch of three men in top hats, one holding a pie marked 40,000,000, drawn in a caricature style.

Drawing for "Punch"(Three men and a pie)

Sir John Tenniel

Soft watercolor portrait of a young woman in a white headscarf, dark jacket and necklace, eyes lowered, against olive backgro

A Dutch girl

Frances Hodgkins, 1907

Watercolour of a calm bay with forested hills, rocky shore and layered ridges under a grey sky.

Frenchman's Bay and Blind Bay

James Crowe Richmond, 1862

Painting of a millwheel beside a stream with a wooden beam, green foliage and young plants, dated 1942.

The millwheel

Frances Hodgkins, 1942