Flower and Butterfly

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 11 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Yusuf sold into slavery (recto); Horseman with raised crop (verso)

Red ink over graphite on off-white modern laid paper; pricked (recto); graphite on off-white wove paper; pricked (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 32 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Wedding procession (left half) (recto); Blank page (verso)

Red-brown ink over graphite on off-white modern laid paper; pricked and rubbed with red chalk

Verses from the Sharaf-nama by Nizami, folio from an album

`Imad al-Hasani, 18th century

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

18th centuryPersian

Paintings (recto and verso), folio 8 from an album

Unknown Artist, c. 1767

Opaque watercolor on paper

18th centuryIndian

Dervish in a Rocky Landscape

Sadiqi Beg, early 17th century

Ink on paper

17th centuryPersian

Album of Fingernail Artwork

Paper; leather binding

Chief of the Dwarfs (Goojez Bashi, Cüce Başı)

Unknown Artist, c. 1820-1825

Opaque watercolor on paper

19th centuryOttoman

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)

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)

Lakshmana Removes a Thorn from Rama's Foot

Unknown Artist, c. 1700-1710

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

18th centuryIndian