Verses Praising the Beloved's Beauty, written for Fath `Ali Shah, folio from an album

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Top: black ink over graphite on beige wove paper; Middle: red ink over graphite on off-white wove paper; Bottom: black ink over black counterproof on off-white wove paper (recto); Brown and gray inks on off-white wove paper (verso)

Brown ink and gold ruling lines on off-white wove paper (recto); Note: drawing mounted overall with colored paper borders (recto); Graphite on off-white wove paper; pricked (verso)

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

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

Ink, black chalk and graphite on paper

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

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

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)

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