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 22 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Sheet of portrait sketches and flowers (recto); Two sheets: dog and decorative frames; kneeling couple and mixed bouquet (verso)

Brown counterproof on off-white wove paper; blind embossing on verso (recto); Top: red and brown inks over graphite on off-white wove paper (verso); Bottom: red ink over graphite, watercolor on off-white wove paper (verso)

Folio 50 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Sketch of Qajar man and four women (recto); Drawing set within a colored paper border: two women and a small child (verso)

Graphite on off-white modern laid paper (recto); Black ink, watercolor and crayon on off-white paper (recto); Note: drawing mounted overall with colored paper borders

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)

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

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)

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)

Letter to a Friend and Verses about Love, folio from an album

Unknown Artist, c. 1800-1850

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Folio 36 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Four drawings; two designs for penboxes; head of a bearded man; seated dervish (recto); Blank page (verso)

Left: black counterproof, brown ink and watercolor on off-white laid paper, pricked; Top middle: red and brown inks over graphite on off-white wove paper; Bottom middle: graphite and watercolor on off-white wove paper; Right: brown ink on off-white laid paper, pricked and partially and selectively rubbed with red chalk (recto)

Birds and Flowers

Husayn Muhammad, c. 1886

Ink and watercolor on paper

Folio 19 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Two scenes from literature: Nushirvan and the Owls; Khusraw spies Shirin bathing (recto); Blank page (verso)

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)

Folio 37 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Two sheets with sketches of people, animals, and bird and flower motifs (recto); Blank page (verso)

Top: brown ink and black counterproof on off-white wove paper; Bottom: colored inks, graphite and black counterproof on off-white wove paper

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)