Verse Written for a Royal Physician, folio from an album

Folio 35 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Two sheets: two sheep; elephant with rider in Indian garb (recto); Blank page (verso)

Top: black counterproof on off-white wove paper; Top verso: black counterproof on off-white wove paper; Bottom: green and brown inks over traces of graphite on off-white laid paper; ink and opaque watercolor on paper (recto)

Folio 2 from an Album of Artists' Drawings from Qajar Iran: Blank page (recto); Birds, flowers, and butterflies (verso)

Unknown Artist, 1775-1850

Black ink on off-white modern laid paper; pricked (verso)

18th-19th centuryPersian

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)

Verse Written for a Royal Physician, folio from an album

'Abd al-Rahim Afsar, 1893-1894

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Unknown Artist, early 19th century

Rose and Nightingale

Watercolor on paper

Folio 38 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Three sheets with sketches of people, and sun and lion motifs (recto); Blank page (verso)

Top: red ink on off-white laid paper; Middle: red ink and graphite on off-white wove paper; Bottom: colored inks, graphite and watercolor on off-white wove paper; partially pricked

Folio 5 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Embracing couple (recto); Seated woman and child in classical dress with kneeling attendant and peacock (verso)

Graphite on beige wove paper; pricked and verso rubbed with red chalk (recto); Black counterproof and traces of rubbed red chalk on blue wove paper (verso)

Folio 26 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Two sheets: pair of dervishes; three dervishes with snake (recto); Blank page (verso)

Top: light brown ink on off-white wove paper, burnished; Bottom: light green ink on off-white wove paper (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