Four Verses about Mystical Love, folio from an album

Folio 40 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Fingernail drawing: horseman fighting a lion with hound at bottom (recto); Blank page (verso)

Relief monoprint on off-white glossy coated wove paper

Folio 5 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Embracing couple (recto); Seated woman and child in classical dress with kneeling attendant and peacock (verso)

Graphite on beige wove paper; pricked and verso rubbed with red chalk (recto); Black counterproof and traces of rubbed red chalk on blue wove paper (verso)

Folio 51 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Portrait of a dervish (recto); Sacrifice of Isaac (verso)

Graphite on off-white paper mounted overall to secondary support (album page) with green paper border (recto); Relief print and watercolor on off-white wove paper (verso)

Folio 21 from an Album of Artists' Drawings from Qajar Iran: Three drawings of figures in European dress (recto); Study sheet with flowers and female portraits and figures (verso)

Unknown Artist, 1850-1875

Top: black counterproof on off-white wove paper; black ink script on verso; Middle: blue-black counterproof with touches of black ink on cream wove paper; Bottom: black ink and graphite on off-white laid paper; pricked and rubbed with graphite (?) (recto) Brown ink and graphite on off-white wove paper (verso)

Folio 55 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Three sheets: portrait bust of a Qajar courtier; sketches of figures (recto); Woman in European dress with attendants (verso)

Top: blue counterproof on off-white Eastern paper (recto); Middle: watercolor and colored inks on off-white paper (recto); Middle: pink ink and graphite (verso); Bottom: graphite and pink ink on beige wove paper (recto); Red counterproof and watercolor on blue Eastern paper (verso)

Folio 53 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Figures in porticoes surrounding fruit trees (recto); Five drawings of flowers framed by a colored paper border (verso)

Watercolor, black chalk, blue colored pencil with touches of graphite on off-white wove paper; pricked (recto); Brown ink with touches of pink ink on off-white wove papers (verso); Note: drawings mounted overall with colored paper borders (verso)

Praise for God, calligraphic composition

Unknown Artist, 1884

Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

Folio 12 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Hunter dismounted from horse, killing a deer (recto); Blank page (verso)

Brown ink on off-white modern laid paper; pricked and verso rubbed with red chalk (recto)

Verses Praising the Beloved's Beauty, written for Fath `Ali Shah, folio from an album

'Abbas Nuri, c. 1820-1834

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Folio 57 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Muhammad Shah Qajar, seated on a chair (recto); Crown imperial (fritillaria imperialis) (verso)

Watercolor and gold over graphite on beige wove paper (recto); Watercolor, silver and black ink on beige wove paper (verso)

Folio 8 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Dancer (recto); Standing youth with waterpipe (verso)

Graphite on off-white wove paper; pricked and pounced with black chalk, verso rubbed with red chalk (recto); Red ink with touches of graphite on off-white modern laid paper; pricked (verso)