Nuts and Flowers, folio from an album

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)

Invocation (Basmala)

Muhammad Qazwini, 1845

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

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

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 10 from an Album of Artists' Drawings from Qajar Iran: Hero on horseback fighting a dragon (recto); Couple entertained on a terrace by musicians and dancers (verso)

Unknown Artist, 1820-1860

Black ink on green- blue Eastern paper; pricked (recto); Black counterproof on off-white modern laid paper; with gold and ink margin lines, pricked and selectively pounced with red chalk (verso)

Folio 48 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Bird and flower design (recto); Blank page (verso)

Black counterproof with red and blue inks on off-white modern laid paper

Folio 53 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Figures in porticoes surrounding fruit trees (recto); Five drawings of flowers framed by a colored paper border (verso)

Watercolor, black chalk, blue colored pencil with touches of graphite on off-white wove paper; pricked (recto); Brown ink with touches of pink ink on off-white wove papers (verso); Note: drawings mounted overall with colored paper borders (verso)

Folio 42 from an Album of Artists' Drawings from Qajar Iran: Virgin and Child with attendants (recto); Three sheets framed by colored paper borders: bust-length portrait of men and women (verso)

Unknown Artist, 1750-1850

Black counterproof on off-white laid paper (recto); Colored inks and watercolor over black chalk on three sheets of off-white wove paper, mounted together (verso)

18th-19th centuryPersian

Folio 20 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Holy Family with winged angel in oval frame (recto); Three drawings of figures in European dress (verso)

Blue-gray ink on off-white laid paper, pricked and verso pounced with red chalk (recto); Top: blue-green counterproof on off-white wove paper (verso); Middle: black coutnerproof on off-white wove paper (verso); Bottom: red-brown ink and graphite on off-white wove paper (verso)