Top: red and brown inks over graphite on off-white modern laid paper; pricked and verso rubbed with red chalk; Bottom: brown ink over graphite on white coated wove paper; pricked and verso rubbed with red chalk (recto)

19th centuryPersian

Albums

Flower and Butterfly

Unknown Artist, 18th-19th century

18th-19th centuryPersian

Albums

Text folio (text recto, text verso of folio 2), from a manuscript of Khwaja ‘Abd Allah Ansari’s Advise

Unknown Artist, dated 1877

Ink, colors, and gold on paper

19th centuryPersian

Albums

Bird and Flowers

Unknown Artist, 18th-19th century

Ink on paper

18th-19th centuryPersian

Albums

Folio 15 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Two drawings of workmen: tailor and man with washboard (recto); Blank page (verso)

Unknown Artist, 19th century

Left: brown ink over graphite on off-white modern laid paper; pricked and verso pounced or rubbed with red chalk; Right: brown ink over graphite on off-white modern laid paper; pricked and verso pounced or rubbed with red chalk (recto)

19th centuryPersian

Albums

Folio 31 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Women feasting (recto); Wedding procession (right half) (verso)

Unknown Artist, 19th century

Graphite on two sheets of off-white wove paper; joined and mounted overall to pieced and burnished wove paper

19th centuryPersian

Albums

Folio 25 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Two sheets: seated boy; seated cleric (recto); Blank page (verso)

Unknown Artist, 19th century

Top: black and brown inks, watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper; Bottom: red ink and graphite on off-white modern laid paper; pricked and verso rubbed with red chalk (recto)

19th centuryPersian

Albums

Folio 28 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Domestic scene with women and child (recto); Three sheets: female musician playing bowed instrument; embracing couple; man hawking on horseback (verso)

Unknown Artist, 19th century

Green and red inks and graphite on off-white wove paper (recto); Top: red ink with touches of brown ink and graphite on off-white laid paper; pricked and verso rubbed with charcoal; Middle: graphite on blue wove paper; Bottom: black ink and black wash over graphite on off-white laid paper, pricked (verso)

19th centuryPersian

Albums

Practice Calligraphy (Siah Mashkh)

Firuz Mirza Nusrat al-Dawla I, c. 1850-1886

Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

19th centuryPersian

Albums

Portrait of Five Seated Clerics, painting by Abu'l Hasan Naqqash Bashi, with Couplet in Praise of the Prophet's family, calligraphy by an unknown artist, folio from an album

Abu'l Hasan Naqqash Bashi, 1859

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

19th centuryPersian