Folio 25 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Two sheets: seated boy; seated cleric (recto); Blank page (verso)

Folio 38 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Three sheets with sketches of people, and sun and lion motifs (recto); Blank page (verso)

Top: red ink on off-white laid paper; Middle: red ink and graphite on off-white wove paper; Bottom: colored inks, graphite and watercolor on off-white wove paper; partially pricked

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)

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

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Unknown Artist, 18th-19th century

Flower and Butterfly

18th-19th centuryPersian

Folio 45 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Three sheets with floral drawings (recto); Blank page (verso)

Top: brown ink on tan Eastern paper; Middle: brown ink and watercolor on off-white wove paper; Bottom: brown ink on tan Eastern paper; selectively pricked and pounced with black chalk

Folio 54 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Drawing of a hyacinth, framed by a colored paper border (recto); Layla visiting Majnun among the wild animals, framed by colored paper borders (verso)

Brown ink and gold ruling lines on off-white wove paper (recto); Note: drawing mounted overall with colored paper borders (recto); Graphite on off-white wove paper; pricked (verso)

Folio 7 from an Album of Artists' Drawings from Qajar Iran: Embracing couple on terrace, attended by servants, dancers, and musicians (recto); Standing woman with headscarf (verso)

Unknown Artist, 1820-1860

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

Verses about Love, folio from an album, left-hand side of a bifolio

Unknown Artist, 18th-19th century

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

18th-19th centuryPersian

Folio 31 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Women feasting (recto); Wedding procession (right half) (verso)

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

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)

Calligraphy Exercise (Siyah Mashq) in Nasta`liq Script

Muhammad Sadiq, 19th-20th century

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

19th-20th centuryPersian