Folio 15 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Two drawings of workmen: tailor and man with washboard (recto); Blank page (verso)

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)

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)

Verse Written for a Royal Physician, folio from an album

'Abd al-Rahim Afsar, 1893-1894

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Verses About Humility from the Bustan by Sa'di, folio from an album

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Text folio (text recto, blank verso of folio 4), from a manuscript of Khwaja ‘Abd Allah Ansari’s Advise

Unknown Artist, dated 1877

Ink, colors, and gold on paper

Folio 14 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Two drawings of workmen: vendor and hat maker (recto); Blank page (verso)

Left: brown ink over graphite on off-white modern laid paper; pricked and pounced with charcoal; Right: brown ink over graphite on off-white modern laid paper; pricked and pounced with charcoal (recto)

Folio 1 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Folio from a Qur’an: Sura 1 (recto); Crown imperial (fritillaria imperialis) (verso)

Black and red inks, watercolor, and gold on off-white paper (recto); Watercolor on off-white wove paper, toned orange-pink wash (verso)

Folio 18 from an Album of Artists' Drawings from Qajar Iran: Two drawings: The meeting of Shams-i Tabrizi and Mawlana Jalal al-Din Rumi (top), Shaykh San`an and the Christian Maiden (bottom) (recto); Zulaykha's maids cut themselves, overcome by Yusuf's beauty (verso)

Unknown Artist, 1850-1900

Brown ink and graphite on off-white wove paper; pricked, edges and verso rubbed with red chalk (recto); Red and brown inks and graphite on off-white modern laid paper; pricked and rubbed with red chalk (verso)

Folio 43 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Two sheets: feline; quails (recto); Two drawings: woman with fan; two women in European dress (verso)

Top: watercolor on blue Eastern paper, burnished (recto); Brown ink over traces of graphite on off-white wove paper (verso); Bottom: watercolor and graphite on wove paper (recto); Black counterproof on off-white wove paper (verso)

Folio 30 from an Album of Artists' Drawings from Qajar Iran: Three sheets: Pen box design with perspectival architectural landscape divided by medallions (top), Bahram Gur visiting a princess (center), Pen box design with audience scene divided by medallions (bottom) (recto); Blank page (verso)

Unknown Artist, 1830-1850

Left: red ink on off-white modern laid paper; pricked and rubbed with red chalk; Middle: brown ink on off-white wove paper; Middle verso: brown ink and watercolor, Right: red and blue-black inks on off-white modern laid paper; pricked and rubbed with red chalk (recto)

Folio 16 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Two drawings of workmen: snack vendor and lathe-turner (recto); Blank page (verso)

Calligraphic Composition in the Shape of a Bird

Unknown Artist, 1804

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

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)

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)