Praise for God, calligraphic composition

Folio 13 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Two sheets of workmen: clothes-presser and tinsmith (recto); Blank page (verso)

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

Text folio (text recto, blank verso of folio 4), from a manuscript of Khwaja ‘Abd Allah Ansari’s Advise

Unknown Artist, dated 1877

Ink, colors, and gold on paper

Folio 49 from an Album of Artsts' Drawings from Qajar Iran: Lovers discovered (recto); Two hands of Fatima (verso)

Unknown Artist, Mid-19th century

Graphite on beige wove paper (recto); Top: relief print with watercolor and gold on tan wove tracing paper (verso); Bottom: rawhide, handcut (verso)

Folio 22 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Sheet of portrait sketches and flowers (recto); Two sheets: dog and decorative frames; kneeling couple and mixed bouquet (verso)

Brown counterproof on off-white wove paper; blind embossing on verso (recto); Top: red and brown inks over graphite on off-white wove paper (verso); Bottom: red ink over graphite, watercolor on off-white wove paper (verso)

Folio 8 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Dancer (recto); Standing youth with waterpipe (verso)

Graphite on off-white wove paper; pricked and pounced with black chalk, verso rubbed with red chalk (recto); Red ink with touches of graphite on off-white modern laid paper; pricked (verso)

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)

Folio 31 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Women feasting (recto); Wedding procession (right half) (verso)

Graphite on two sheets of off-white wove paper; joined and mounted overall to pieced and burnished wove paper

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 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

Folio 56 from an Album of Artists' Drawings from Qajar Iran: Bird and floral design for a pen box (recto); Two sheets: Study of a rose; Study of an iris (verso)

Unknown Artist, 1750-1850

Colored inks and graphite on off-white laid paper; pricked and verso rubbed with red chalk (recto); Top: Pink and green inks on beige wove paper (verso): Bottom: Green and brown inks on beige laid paper (verso)

18th-19th centuryPersian

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 47 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Man splitting wood (recto); Qajar youth seated in a chair with waterpipe and sword (verso)

Graphite and orange crayon (?) on cream modern laid paper (recto); Watercolor and charcoal on off-white wove paper; pricked (verso)