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)

Folio 9 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Amir Kabir in audience with kneeling courtiers (recto); Blank page (verso)

Graphite on off-white wove paper; pricked (recto)

Text folio containing the colophon (text recto, colophon verso of folio 3), from a manuscript of Khwaja ‘Abd Allah Ansari’s Advise

Unknown Artist, dated 1877

Ink, colors, and gold on paper

Folio 10 from an Album of Artists' Drawings from Qajar Iran: Hero on horseback fighting a dragon (recto); Couple entertained on a terrace by musicians and dancers (verso)

Unknown Artist, 1820-1860

Black ink on green- blue Eastern paper; pricked (recto); Black counterproof on off-white modern laid paper; with gold and ink margin lines, pricked and selectively pounced with red chalk (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)

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

Unknown Artist, 18th-19th century

Bird and Flowers

Ink on paper

18th-19th centuryPersian

Folio 44 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Three sheets: European family gathered around a table; bearded man in semi-classical garb; three graces (recto); Blank page (verso)

Top: black counterproof on off-white wove paper; Middle: graphite on off-white modern laid paper; Bottom: black counterproof on off-white wove paper

Folio 1 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Folio from a Qur’an: Sura 1 (recto); Crown imperial (fritillaria imperialis) (verso)

Black and red inks, watercolor, and gold on off-white paper (recto); Watercolor on off-white wove paper, toned orange-pink wash (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 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 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)

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)

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