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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,725 works

Watercolour sketch of a sloping street with red-brown houses, a low wall, and a tree leaning over the road.

Sketchbook

Frederick Porter

Watercolor illustration of a brown flatfish with a red tail fin, shown in side view on a cream background.

Rhombosolea leporina (NZ) : Yellow-belly flounder

Frank Edward Clarke, 1870

Pencil drawing of a wooded landscape with three figures gathered at a stone wall beneath tall trees.

Wooded landscape with figures

Thomas Gainsborough, 1752

Lithograph panorama of Lake Manapori with mountains, wooded shores, islands and grazing cattle in grey tones.

New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive. Plate V. Lake Manapori

Charles Decimus Barraud, 1877

Pen and wash sketch of a waterfall falling into a pool beneath dense trees, with rocks in the foreground.

On the Taieri River, Otago

Nicholas Chevalier, 1865

Watercolor still life of red, pink and white roses in vases against a busy blue and mauve floral background.

Roses

Margaret Stoddart, 1930

Hand painted scientific plate showing nine numbered beetles in varied colours with scale bars, labelled Plate XII.

Original hand painted plate for New Zealand Beetles [Plate XII]

George Hudson, 1934

Watercolour drawing of a slender brown common pipefish with handwritten annotations on cream paper.

Syngnathidae : Common Pipefish

Frank Edward Clarke, 1870

Sepia print of a woman in a ribboned hat picking grapes from a vine, titled Autumn.

Autumn

Francesco Bartolozzi

Watercolour of a wide river lined with green wooded banks, rocky shorelines and hazy hills under a pale sky.

Parramatta River (No 6)

George Sherriff

Panoramic watercolour of Lake Wanaka with mountains, hills and cabbage trees in the foreground.

South West Wanaka Lake

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Hand-painted watercolor plate labeled Plate VI showing eleven numbered insects, including lacewing-like adults and aquatic ny

Original hand painted plate for New Zealand Neuroptera [Plate VI]

George Hudson, 1904

Watercolor of a valley with rolling hills, a stream, trees, and a distant snow-capped mountain in warm pastel tones.

Untitled (landscape with mountains)

Geometric textile design of blue, purple, black and white triangles in zigzag borders on a pale lilac ground.

Untitled (Textile design no I)

Frances Hodgkins, 1925

Rudyard Kipling, No. 1

William Strang, 1898

Etching of two seated women facing the sea with bathers in the water at right, under a hatched sky.

Sur la plage, a Berneval (On the beach, at Berneval)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1892

Abstract geometric print with black bands, cream rectangles, and small yellow, blue and red blocks on white paper.

Composition

Theo van Doesburg, 1924

Pencil sketch of a river winding through a forest with tall trees, undergrowth, and two small figures on the bank.

Souvenir of Upukerora River

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Watercolor of a river valley with snow-capped mountains and native trees under a pale sky, signed John Gully 1864.

Mount Cook

John Gully, 1864

Black and white print of a shaded garden with tall trees, a stone wall, a conical-roofed summerhouse, and a deck chair.

Landscape with summerhouse

Roger Fry, 1928

Cardinal Manning

Alphonse Legros, 1891

Watercolour of a winding river past whitewashed cottages, with hills, a loch and distant purple mountains.

Untitled (landscape in Scotland)

Graphite portrait drawing of a woman's head with short wavy hair, looking directly at the viewer with shaded features.

Untitled. (Woman's head)

Elizabeth Berry, 1926

Engraved portrait of a man in a cloak and lace collar holding a rolled paper, with a ship at sea behind him.

Andries van Eertvelt. From Icones principum virorum ('The Iconography')

Schelte Adamsz. Bolswert, 1645

Red paper with repeated black hat shapes, gray triangles and orange bars arranged in a staggered textile-style pattern.

Untitled (Textile design no II)

Frances Hodgkins, 1925

Abstract textile design of interlocking geometric shapes in orange, yellow, brown and navy on a red background.

Untitled (Textile design no VI)

Frances Hodgkins, 1925

Pencil sketch on blue paper of a sailing ship on calm sea with mountain range behind, labelled Kaikoura Mountains.

Kaikoura Mountains

Nicholas Chevalier, 1869

Watercolour of a river flowing between steep cliffs and a distant mountain under a cloudy, muted sky.

Hawks Crag, Buller River by moonlight

William Marshall Cooper, 1873

Watercolour of a rocky Cornish cove with turquoise sea, cliffs, green slopes and ruined castle walls on the headland.

Untitled (Tintagel Haven with ruins of Tintagel Castle, Cornwall)

Roland Hipkins, 1928

Sepia lithograph of Coromandel Harbour with hills, islands, two sailing ships and a small boat on calm water.

New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive. Plate III. Coromandel Harbour

Charles Decimus Barraud, 1877