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)

19th centuryPersian

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Folio 13 from an Album of Calligraphic Panels

Unknown Artist, 17th-18th century

Ink with opaque watercolor and gold on paper

17th-18th centuryIndian

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Persian verses in calligraphic composition, illuminated folio from an album

Unknown Artist, c. 1600

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

16th-17th centuryPersian

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Portrait of Rao Shatru Sal of Bundi (r. 1631-58)

Unknown Artist, c. 1620-1625

Opaque watercolor and gold on paper

17th centuryIndian

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Folio 25 from an Album of Calligraphic Panels

Unknown Artist, 17th-18th century

Ink with opaque watercolor and gold on paper

17th-18th centuryIndian

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Youth Dressed as a Dervish, folio from an album

Aqa Riza (Riza ‘Abbasi), c.1630

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

17th centuryPersian

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Verses of Poetry (recto and verso), folio from an album

Unknown Artist, 16th century

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

16th centuryOttoman

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Mounted Mysore Soldier with Flintlock Gun

Unknown Artist, 19th-20th century

Opaque watercolor on mica

19th centuryIndian

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Album Folio with Three Specimens of Calligraphy

Unknown Artist, 1780

Ink, opaque watercolor and silver on paper

18th centuryMughal

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Lovers' Dalliance

Muhammad Qasim, mid 17th century

Opaque watercolor and gold on paper

17th centuryPersian