Sayings of `Ali Regarding Eloquence and Proper Speech, folio from an album

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)

Calligraphic Composition in the Shape of a Bird

Unknown Artist, 1804

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Folio 3 from an Album of Artists' Drawings from Qajar Iran: Medallion with portrait bust of a European woman, enclosed in symmetrical composition of scrollwork, birds, flowers, and butterflies (recto); Hunter with falcon, hound, and rifle (verso)

Unknown Artist, 1775-1850

Black ink, watercolor, and graphite on beige wove paper, burnished (recto); Light brown ink on off-white wove paper; pricked (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)

Verses about Love, folio from an album, left-hand side of a bifolio

Unknown Artist, 18th-19th century

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

18th-19th centuryPersian

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 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 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