Top: brown ink on tan Eastern paper; Middle: brown ink and watercolor on off-white wove paper; Bottom: brown ink on tan Eastern paper; selectively pricked and pounced with black chalk

19th centuryPersian

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Folio 5 from an Album of Hadith Written in Nashki Calligraphy

`Ali Wasfi, 1762-1763

Ink opaque watercolor and gold on paper

18th centuryOttoman

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Album Folio with Three Specimens of Calligraphy

Unknown Artist, 1778

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

18th centuryMughal

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Qajar Youth Seated against Cushions (pricked drawing)

Unknown Artist, 19th century

Ink, black chalk and graphite on paper

19th centuryPersian

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Amorous Couple Under Curtains

Unknown Artist, early 19th century

Opaque watercolor and gold on paper; Pahari School, Kangra Style

19th centuryIndian

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Folio 5 from an Album of Calligraphic Panels

Unknown Artist, 17th-18th century

Ink with opaque watercolor and gold on paper

17th-18th centuryIndian

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Calligraphy with verses by Hafiz, folio from an album

Muhammad Sadiq, 1833

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

19th centuryPersian

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A youthful warrior fights a dragon that has wrapped itself around his body

Unknown Artist, c. 1600

Watercolor, opaque on paper

16th-17th centuryOttoman

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Woman in a Green Robe, Holding a Spray of Flowers

Unknown Artist, 16th century

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

16th centuryPersian

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Bramin; from an Album entitled “Costumes of India”

Lucknow Company School, c. 1800

Opaque watercolor on paper

19th centuryIndian