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

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

Unknown Artist, 18th-19th century

Bird and Flowers

Ink on paper

18th-19th centuryPersian

Praise for God, calligraphic composition

Unknown Artist, 1884

Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

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

Letter with New Year's Greetings to Muhammad `Ali Qajar

Unknown Artist, 1894

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Folio 3 from an Album of Artists' Drawings from Qajar Iran: Medallion with portrait bust of a European woman, enclosed in symmetrical composition of scrollwork, birds, flowers, and butterflies (recto); Hunter with falcon, hound, and rifle (verso)

Unknown Artist, 1775-1850

Black ink, watercolor, and graphite on beige wove paper, burnished (recto); Light brown ink on off-white wove paper; pricked (verso)

Folio 57 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Muhammad Shah Qajar, seated on a chair (recto); Crown imperial (fritillaria imperialis) (verso)

Watercolor and gold over graphite on beige wove paper (recto); Watercolor, silver and black ink on beige wove paper (verso)

Folio 13 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Two sheets of workmen: clothes-presser and tinsmith (recto); Blank page (verso)

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)

Verses Praising the Beloved's Beauty, written for Fath `Ali Shah, folio from an album

'Abbas Nuri, c. 1820-1834

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Sayings of `Ali Regarding Eloquence and Proper Speech, folio from an album

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Folio 21 from an Album of Artists' Drawings from Qajar Iran: Three drawings of figures in European dress (recto); Study sheet with flowers and female portraits and figures (verso)

Unknown Artist, 1850-1875

Top: black counterproof on off-white wove paper; black ink script on verso; Middle: blue-black counterproof with touches of black ink on cream wove paper; Bottom: black ink and graphite on off-white laid paper; pricked and rubbed with graphite (?) (recto) Brown ink and graphite on off-white wove paper (verso)

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

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)