Verses Praising the Beloved&#x27;s Beauty, written for Fath `Ali Shah, folio from an album

Folio 27 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Two sheets: male and female drum players (recto); Blank page (verso)

Left: brown and light red inks over graphite; pricked and verso rubbed with red chalk; Right: brown ink and blue colored pencil on off-white wove paper; pricked and rubbed with red chalk (recto)

Folio 43 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Two sheets: feline; quails (recto); Two drawings: woman with fan; two women in European dress (verso)

Top: watercolor on blue Eastern paper, burnished (recto); Brown ink over traces of graphite on off-white wove paper (verso); Bottom: watercolor and graphite on wove paper (recto); Black counterproof on off-white wove paper (verso)

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 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 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)

Album of Drawings and Paintings

Drawings; ink and opaque watercolor on paper

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)

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 53 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Figures in porticoes surrounding fruit trees (recto); Five drawings of flowers framed by a colored paper border (verso)

Watercolor, black chalk, blue colored pencil with touches of graphite on off-white wove paper; pricked (recto); Brown ink with touches of pink ink on off-white wove papers (verso); Note: drawings mounted overall with colored paper borders (verso)

Folio 34 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Three sheets with sketches of people and animals (recto); Lion attacking a cow, framed by colored paper borders (verso)

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)

Folio 48 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Bird and flower design (recto); Blank page (verso)

Black counterproof with red and blue inks on off-white modern laid paper

Four Verses about Mystical Love, folio from an album

Mu'tamad al-Dawlah Mirza 'Abd al-Vahab, 19th century

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper