Folio 29 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Three sheets: woman nursing child; old woman; amorous couple (recto); Two drawings mounted within colored paper borders: Shaykh San`an and the Christian maiden; Dervishes gathered by a stream (verso)

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

Manuscript of Khwaja ‘Abd Allah Ansari’s Advise

Unknown Artist, dated 1877

Ink, colors, and gold on paper; leather binding with gilded tooling

Album of Drawings and Paintings

Drawings; ink and opaque watercolor on paper

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

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

Invocation (Basmala)

Muhammad Qazwini, 1845

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Folio 29 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Three sheets: woman nursing child; old woman; amorous couple (recto); Two drawings mounted within colored paper borders: Shaykh San`an and the Christian maiden; Dervishes gathered by a stream (verso)

Attributes and Uses of Chapters of the Qur'an, folio from an album

Unknown Artist, 18th-19th century

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

18th-19th centuryPersian

Folio 38 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Three sheets with sketches of people, and sun and lion motifs (recto); Blank page (verso)

Top: red ink on off-white laid paper; Middle: red ink and graphite on off-white wove paper; Bottom: colored inks, graphite and watercolor on off-white wove paper; partially pricked

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 30 from an Album of Artists' Drawings from Qajar Iran: Three sheets: Pen box design with perspectival architectural landscape divided by medallions (top), Bahram Gur visiting a princess (center), Pen box design with audience scene divided by medallions (bottom) (recto); Blank page (verso)

Unknown Artist, 1830-1850

Left: red ink on off-white modern laid paper; pricked and rubbed with red chalk; Middle: brown ink on off-white wove paper; Middle verso: brown ink and watercolor, Right: red and blue-black inks on off-white modern laid paper; pricked and rubbed with red chalk (recto)

Folio 46 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings:Two sheets: horse; Fath Ali Shah Qajar enthroned (recto); Blank page (verso)

Top: black counterproof on off-white modern laid paper; Bottom: black counterproof, blue ink and graphite on beige Eastern (?) paper

Folio 45 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Three sheets with floral drawings (recto); Blank page (verso)

Top: brown ink on tan Eastern paper; Middle: brown ink and watercolor on off-white wove paper; Bottom: brown ink on tan Eastern paper; selectively pricked and pounced with black chalk