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)

19th centuryPersian

Albums

Folio 28 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Domestic scene with women and child (recto); Three sheets: female musician playing bowed instrument; embracing couple; man hawking on horseback (verso)

Unknown Artist, 19th century

Green and red inks and graphite on off-white wove paper (recto); Top: red ink with touches of brown ink and graphite on off-white laid paper; pricked and verso rubbed with charcoal; Middle: graphite on blue wove paper; Bottom: black ink and black wash over graphite on off-white laid paper, pricked (verso)

19th centuryPersian

Albums

Album of Drawings and Paintings

Unknown Artist, 19th century

Drawings; ink and opaque watercolor on paper

19th centuryPersian

Albums

Folio 16 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Two drawings of workmen: snack vendor and lathe-turner (recto); Blank page (verso)

Unknown Artist, 19th century

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)

19th centuryPersian

Albums

Folio 1 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Folio from a Qur’an: Sura 1 (recto); Crown imperial (fritillaria imperialis) (verso)

Unknown Artist, 19th century

Black and red inks, watercolor, and gold on off-white paper (recto); Watercolor on off-white wove paper, toned orange-pink wash (verso)

19th centuryPersian

Albums

Folio 36 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Four drawings; two designs for penboxes; head of a bearded man; seated dervish (recto); Blank page (verso)

Unknown Artist, 19th century

Left: black counterproof, brown ink and watercolor on off-white laid paper, pricked; Top middle: red and brown inks over graphite on off-white wove paper; Bottom middle: graphite and watercolor on off-white wove paper; Right: brown ink on off-white laid paper, pricked and partially and selectively rubbed with red chalk (recto)

19th centuryPersian

Albums

Folio 52 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: King on horseback embraced by angel (recto); Bust portrait of a young woman, probably Pourandokht, with tiara and headscarves (verso)

Unknown Artist, 19th century

Watercolor, black chalk and blue colored pencil on off-white wove paper; pricked (recto); Watercolor, silver and gold over graphite on off-white modern laid paper (verso)

19th centuryPersian

Albums

Flower

Unknown Artist, 18th-19th century

18th-19th centuryPersian

Albums

Verses about the Quality of Ink, folio from an album

Shams al-Udaba, 1862

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

19th centuryPersian