Top: brown ink over traces of graphite on beige wove paper, burnished; Middle: brown ink over traces of graphite on off-white paper; pricked; Bottom: brown ink on off white wove paper; Bottom verso: red and brown ink; Bottom verso: red and brown ink (recto) Right: brown ink over graphite on off-white laid (?) paper; pricked; Left: black ink with traces of black chalk on beige wove paper; rubbed with red chalk (verso)

19th centuryPersian

Albums

Folio 54 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Drawing of a hyacinth, framed by a colored paper border (recto); Layla visiting Majnun among the wild animals, framed by colored paper borders (verso)

Unknown Artist, 19th century

Brown ink and gold ruling lines on off-white wove paper (recto); Note: drawing mounted overall with colored paper borders (recto); Graphite on off-white wove paper; pricked (verso)

19th centuryPersian

Albums

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)

19th centuryPersian

Albums

Verses Praising the Beloved's Beauty, written for Fath `Ali Shah, folio from an album

'Abbas Nuri, c. 1820-1834

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

19th centuryPersian

Albums

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)

Unknown Artist, 19th century

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)

19th centuryPersian

Albums

Verses about Love, folio from an album, left-hand side of a bifolio

Unknown Artist, 18th-19th century

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

18th-19th centuryPersian

Albums

Fly leaf with dedication note and text (dedication note recto, text verso of folio 1) from a manuscript of Khwaja ‘Abd Allah Ansari’s Advise

Unknown Artist, dated 1877

Ink, colors, and gold on paper

19th centuryPersian

Albums

Folio 6 from an Album of Artists' Drawings from Qajar Iran: Virgin and child with elderly men and attendants (recto); Amorous couple with attendants, baby, rabbits, and birds (verso)

Unknown Artist, 1750-1850

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

18th-19th centuryPersian

Albums

Folio 24 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Mir Fenderesky and Shaykh Bistam (recto); Two drawings of women: dancer; cupbearer (verso)

Unknown Artist, 19th century

Red ink over graphite on beige wove paper; burnished (recto); Top: red and red-brown inks over graphite on off-white wove paper; pricked and rubbed with red chalk; Bottom: red-brown ink over graphite on off-white wove paper (verso)

19th centuryPersian

Albums

Four Verses about Mystical Love, folio from an album

Mu'tamad al-Dawlah Mirza 'Abd al-Vahab, 19th century

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

19th centuryPersian

Albums

Attributes and Uses of Chapters of the Qur'an, folio from an album

Unknown Artist, 18th-19th century

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

18th-19th centuryPersian