Top: brown ink over traces of graphite on beige wove paper, burnished; Middle: brown ink over traces of graphite on off-white paper; pricked; Bottom: brown ink on off white wove paper; Bottom verso: red and brown ink; Bottom verso: red and brown ink (recto) Right: brown ink over graphite on off-white laid (?) paper; pricked; Left: black ink with traces of black chalk on beige wove paper; rubbed with red chalk (verso)

19th centuryPersian

Albums

Folio 11 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Yusuf sold into slavery (recto); Horseman with raised crop (verso)

Unknown Artist, 19th century

Red ink over graphite on off-white modern laid paper; pricked (recto); graphite on off-white wove paper; pricked (verso)

19th centuryPersian

Albums

Folio 26 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Two sheets: pair of dervishes; three dervishes with snake (recto); Blank page (verso)

Unknown Artist, 19th century

Top: light brown ink on off-white wove paper, burnished; Bottom: light green ink on off-white wove paper (recto)

19th centuryPersian

Albums

Folio 48 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Bird and flower design (recto); Blank page (verso)

Unknown Artist, 19th century

Black counterproof with red and blue inks on off-white modern laid paper

19th centuryPersian

Albums

Verses about the Quality of Ink, folio from an album

Shams al-Udaba, 1862

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

19th centuryPersian

Albums

Folio 18 from an Album of Artists' Drawings from Qajar Iran: Two drawings: The meeting of Shams-i Tabrizi and Mawlana Jalal al-Din Rumi (top), Shaykh San`an and the Christian Maiden (bottom) (recto); Zulaykha's maids cut themselves, overcome by Yusuf's beauty (verso)

Unknown Artist, 1850-1900

Brown ink and graphite on off-white wove paper; pricked, edges and verso rubbed with red chalk (recto); Red and brown inks and graphite on off-white modern laid paper; pricked and rubbed with red chalk (verso)

19th centuryPersian

Albums

Album of Drawings and Paintings

Unknown Artist, 19th century

Drawings; ink and opaque watercolor on paper

19th centuryPersian

Albums

Folio 27 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Two sheets: male and female drum players (recto); Blank page (verso)

Unknown Artist, 19th century

Left: brown and light red inks over graphite; pricked and verso rubbed with red chalk; Right: brown ink and blue colored pencil on off-white wove paper; pricked and rubbed with red chalk (recto)

19th centuryPersian

Albums

Folio 43 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Two sheets: feline; quails (recto); Two drawings: woman with fan; two women in European dress (verso)

Unknown Artist, 19th century

Top: watercolor on blue Eastern paper, burnished (recto); Brown ink over traces of graphite on off-white wove paper (verso); Bottom: watercolor and graphite on wove paper (recto); Black counterproof on off-white wove paper (verso)

19th centuryPersian

Albums

Praise for God, calligraphic composition

Unknown Artist, 1884

Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

19th centuryPersian