Left: brown ink over graphite on off-white modern laid paper; pricked and verso pounced or rubbed with red chalk; Right: brown ink over graphite on off-white modern laid paper; pricked and verso pounced or rubbed with red chalk (recto)

19th centuryPersian

Albums

Folio 28 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Domestic scene with women and child (recto); Three sheets: female musician playing bowed instrument; embracing couple; man hawking on horseback (verso)

Unknown Artist, 19th century

Green and red inks and graphite on off-white wove paper (recto); Top: red ink with touches of brown ink and graphite on off-white laid paper; pricked and verso rubbed with charcoal; Middle: graphite on blue wove paper; Bottom: black ink and black wash over graphite on off-white laid paper, pricked (verso)

19th centuryPersian

Albums

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)

19th centuryPersian

Albums

Folio 34 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Three sheets with sketches of people and animals (recto); Lion attacking a cow, framed by colored paper borders (verso)

Unknown Artist, 19th century

Top: black ink over graphite on beige wove paper; Middle: red ink over graphite on off-white wove paper; Bottom: black ink over black counterproof on off-white wove paper (recto); Brown and gray inks on off-white wove paper (verso)

19th centuryPersian

Albums

Folio 49 from an Album of Artsts' Drawings from Qajar Iran: Lovers discovered (recto); Two hands of Fatima (verso)

Unknown Artist, Mid-19th century

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

19th centuryPersian

Albums

Folio 56 from an Album of Artists' Drawings from Qajar Iran: Bird and floral design for a pen box (recto); Two sheets: Study of a rose; Study of an iris (verso)

Unknown Artist, 1750-1850

Colored inks and graphite on off-white laid paper; pricked and verso rubbed with red chalk (recto); Top: Pink and green inks on beige wove paper (verso): Bottom: Green and brown inks on beige laid paper (verso)

18th-19th centuryPersian

Albums

Folio 46 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings:Two sheets: horse; Fath Ali Shah Qajar enthroned (recto); Blank page (verso)

Unknown Artist, 19th century

Top: black counterproof on off-white modern laid paper; Bottom: black counterproof, blue ink and graphite on beige Eastern (?) paper

19th centuryPersian

Albums

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)

Unknown Artist, 19th century

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)

19th centuryPersian

Albums

Text folio (text recto, text verso of folio 2), from a manuscript of Khwaja ‘Abd Allah Ansari’s Advise

Unknown Artist, dated 1877

Ink, colors, and gold on paper

19th centuryPersian

Albums

Flower

Unknown Artist, 18th-19th century

18th-19th centuryPersian

Albums

Folio 6 from an Album of Artists' Drawings from Qajar Iran: Virgin and child with elderly men and attendants (recto); Amorous couple with attendants, baby, rabbits, and birds (verso)

Unknown Artist, 1750-1850

Black counterproof with touches of black ink on off-white wove paper (recto); Red ink, watercolor and graphite on off-white modern laid paper; pricked and rubbed with red chalk (verso)

18th-19th centuryPersian