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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,725 works

Watercolor sketch of a seaside promenade with a stone tower, arched gateway, figures, and sailing boats on the water.

Dawlish

David Roberts, 1855

Watercolour of an elderly seated man, a woman with her hand on his shoulder, and a cloaked man gesturing in a tiled room.

King Lear and Cordelia

John Massey Wright

Etching of an elderly man, a pointing young woman, and a severed head raised above them in a dim interior.

The beheading of John the Baptist

Giuseppe Caletti, 1625

Engraved landscape of a waterfall, ruined hilltop building, and draped figures among stones and trees.

Maecenas' Villa at Tivoli

John Le Keux, 1833

Lithograph portrait of a seated man in a double-breasted jacket, one arm draped over a chair, on a cream mount.

Portrait of P.I.Selby

Pen and ink drawing of a bearded man seated on a chair, hands resting on a cane, gazing to the side.

The dwarf

Mina Arndt, 1910

Botanical drawing of a climbing plant with heart-shaped leaves, buds and white funnel flowers on a pale sheet.

Calystegia sepium (Linnaeus) R. Brown

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Pencil and chalk drawing of a valley with a snow-capped mountain peak, a winding river and trees in the foreground.

Sources of the Waimakariri

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Sepia reproduction of a knight standing over sleeping figures in a dense briar wood filled with grasses and flowers.

The Briar Wood. From the portfolio: The Work of E. Burne-Jones

Edward Burne-Jones, 1871

Engraved botanical print of a leafy branch with slender flower spikes and small dissected flower studies at lower right.

Deeringia amaranthoides (Lamarck) Merrill

Sydney Parkinson

Etching of a dusty street beside a city wall, with carts, pedestrians, a bare tree, chimneys and a distant gate tower.

Peking City Wall. From: Far Eastern plates

Ernest Stephen Lumsden, 1911

Etching of an elderly woman in a patterned hat seated beside a spinning wheel in a dark interior, rendered in dense hatching.

Ma Tante Johanna (My aunt Johanna)

Félicien Rops, 1874

Grey-toned botanical drawing of a branching plant with long pointed leaves and pale hanging flowers on a cream sheet.

Bruguiera conjugata (Linnaeus) Merrill

Sydney Parkinson

Charcoal sketch of a church spire among dark trees beside water, with loose diagonal strokes across a cloudy sky.

Sketch of church in An 1893 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Watercolour of bare, wind-bent trees on a hill above a stone wall, under heavy grey clouds and pale snowy fields.

Moonrise over Cleeve Hill

Paul Nash, 1945

Grey-toned botanical drawing of a small plant with rosette leaves, roots and flowers on a cream page.

Calogyne pilosa R. Brown

Sydney Parkinson

Watercolor drawing of a stone church with a tall spire and Gothic windows, with gravestones in the foreground under a cloudy

S.W. view of St. Helen's Church, Abingdon, Berkshire

John Buckler, 1801

Wood engraving of a dog pawing a skull in a room with masks, a chest of drawers and a chair, within an oval border.

Wood engraving

Engraved botanical plate of a branching plant with divided leaves and clusters of slender seed pods on a cream page.

Osmorhiza chilensis Hooker & Arnott

Sydney Parkinson

Etching of peasants dancing and drinking in a crowded tavern interior with a hearth, laundry and a dog.

The dance in the inn

Adriaen van Ostade, 1640

Etching of a haloed figure gesturing to a crowd of sick and kneeling people in a dark interior setting.

Christ healing the sick ('The hundred guilder print')

Captain William Baillie, 1775

Monochrome botanical print of a climbing plant with oval leaves, small pea-like flower clusters and slender seed pods.

Glycine tomentella Hayata

Sydney Parkinson

Pencil sketch of a girl in a pointed bonnet and long cloak carrying a wicker basket on her arm.

Girl with basket

Watercolour of Wellington harbour with two anchored ships, rolling golden hills, a carriage on a road, and distant snowy moun

Wellington

Charles Decimus Barraud, 1871

Botanical drawing of a leafy branch with elongated pointed leaves, small buds and tiny flowers on a grey-shaded stem.

Persoonia levis (Cavanilles) Domin

Sydney Parkinson

Etching of a leafless tree leaning over a calm lake, with a distant treeline under a pale sky.

The lake

Martin Hardie, 1941

Pen and ink sketch of an insect with curled antenna, round body and segmented abdomen on cream card.

Entomology watercolour

Grey botanical print of a trailing plant with round leaves and small flowers, with a separate flower detail below.

Epilobium nummulariifolium R. Cunningham ex Cunningham

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Watercolour of a clifftop with soldiers, a gun emplacement, barbed wire and a flagpole under a cloudy sky.

Coastal defences

Eric Ravilious, 1940

Watercolor of Mount Rotui's jagged peak above green slopes, with two bays and a sailing ship on Moorea.

Mount Rotui, Cook’s Bay (Pao Pao) and Opunoku Bay, Moorea

Constance Gordon-Cumming, 1877