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

Folio 15 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Two drawings of workmen: tailor and man with washboard (recto); Blank page (verso)

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

Verses in Praise of Sultan Hasan `Ali Shah and Verses by Hafiz, folio from an album

Muhammad Ibrahim, 18th-19th century

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

18th-19th centuryPersian

Folio 46 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings:Two sheets: horse; Fath Ali Shah Qajar enthroned (recto); Blank page (verso)

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

Praise for God, calligraphic composition

Unknown Artist, 1884

Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

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 23 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Three sheets: bird and flower designs for a penbox; polylobed cartouche enclosing couple (recto); Blank page (verso)

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)

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 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)

Unknown Artist, 1850-1900

Brown ink and graphite on off-white wove paper; pricked, edges and verso rubbed with red chalk (recto); Red and brown inks and graphite on off-white modern laid paper; pricked and rubbed with red chalk (verso)

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

Unknown Artist, 18th-19th century

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

18th-19th centuryPersian

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

'Abbas Nuri, c. 1820-1834

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Folio 20 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Holy Family with winged angel in oval frame (recto); Three drawings of figures in European dress (verso)

Blue-gray ink on off-white laid paper, pricked and verso pounced with red chalk (recto); Top: blue-green counterproof on off-white wove paper (verso); Middle: black coutnerproof on off-white wove paper (verso); Bottom: red-brown ink and graphite on off-white wove paper (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)