Top: blue counterproof on off-white Eastern paper (recto); Middle: watercolor and colored inks on off-white paper (recto); Middle: pink ink and graphite (verso); Bottom: graphite and pink ink on beige wove paper (recto); Red counterproof and watercolor on blue Eastern paper (verso)

19th centuryPersian

Albums

Folio 36 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Four drawings; two designs for penboxes; head of a bearded man; seated dervish (recto); Blank page (verso)

Unknown Artist, 19th century

Left: black counterproof, brown ink and watercolor on off-white laid paper, pricked; Top middle: red and brown inks over graphite on off-white wove paper; Bottom middle: graphite and watercolor on off-white wove paper; Right: brown ink on off-white laid paper, pricked and partially and selectively rubbed with red chalk (recto)

19th centuryPersian

Albums

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

Unknown Artist, 19th century

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)

19th centuryPersian

Albums

Folio 44 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Three sheets: European family gathered around a table; bearded man in semi-classical garb; three graces (recto); Blank page (verso)

Unknown Artist, 19th century

Top: black counterproof on off-white wove paper; Middle: graphite on off-white modern laid paper; Bottom: black counterproof on off-white wove paper

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

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

Flowering Branch

Unknown Artist, 18th-19th century

18th-19th centuryPersian

Albums

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)

Unknown Artist, 19th century

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)

19th centuryPersian

Albums

Rose and Nightingale

Unknown Artist, early 19th century

Watercolor on paper

19th centuryPersian