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Hone Heke fells the flagstaff flying the British flag at Kororareka.

Painting of old Parliament Buildings

A Public Works Department camp at Hapuawhenua, near Ohakune

This romantic view of Lake Taupo shows what is now part of the Tongariro National Park and a World Heritage Cultural Landscape.

In this painting by George Angus, Tamihana Te Rauparaha, in London in 1852, is shown in a formal English suit. Tamihana Te Rauparaha, also known as Katu, was the son of the great Ngati Toa leader Te Rauparaha and his fifth and senior wife, Te Akau of Tuhourangi.

South sea whale fishery, around 1825

British officer H.G. Robley's painting of a haka with muskets at Maketu, about 1865

This painting of the village of Pas, the Somme 1918, is by N.H. Welch. Note the poppies in the field. See the Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association website for information on the significance of the poppy.

Painters and photographers loved to capture the beauty of Parliament's buildings in postcards, and New Zealanders and visitors sent these to friends and family in new Zealand and overseas.

John Barr Hoyte produced this sketch in the 1870s at a time when few Europeans visited Lake Waikaremoana.

View of Wiremu Kingi te Rangitake's Pa, 9 March 1861

This engraving of a Maori family in Dusky Sound is from a drawing by William Hodges that was made during Captain James Cook's second visit to New Zealand in 1777. The image depicts Maori as 'noble savages', a term associated with the romantic philosophy popular in this period.

Painting of Port Nicholson by Charles Heaphy c.1840.

Gunfighter pa with potato plantations, about 1845

William Deans and his brother at Riccarton, Christchurch, 1843.

Maori watch Auckland grow, about 1843

Kororareka as painted by Augustus Earle; the colour print was published in 1838. A European man, probably Earle himself, is led down a steep path by a Maori with a mere on his wrist and a taiaha over his shoulder who gestures towards the beachside settlement of Kororareka (Russell).

Modern reconstruction of the Treaty signing - painting.

This 1847 George Angas painting shows Potatau Te Wherowhero's pa with Taupiri mountain in the background

This imaginative reconstruction of the capture of the ship Boyd in Whangaroa Harbour was painted some 30 years after the event by the French artist Louis Auguste Sainson.