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)

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

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)

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

Ink, colors, and gold on paper

Ink, black chalk and graphite on paper

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

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

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Left: brown and light red inks over graphite; pricked and verso rubbed with red chalk; Right: brown ink and blue colored pencil on off-white wove paper; pricked and rubbed with red chalk (recto)