Folio 4 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Dancer with finger-cymbals (recto); Embracing couple approached by a woman (verso)

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

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

Folio 40 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Fingernail drawing: horseman fighting a lion with hound at bottom (recto); Blank page (verso)

Relief monoprint on off-white glossy coated wove paper

An Image of Majnun with Verses from the Poem Layla va Majnun

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Folio 44 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Three sheets: European family gathered around a table; bearded man in semi-classical garb; three graces (recto); Blank page (verso)

Top: black counterproof on off-white wove paper; Middle: graphite on off-white modern laid paper; Bottom: black counterproof on off-white wove paper

Verses about the Quality of Ink, folio from an album

Shams al-Udaba, 1862

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Folio 12 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Hunter dismounted from horse, killing a deer (recto); Blank page (verso)

Brown ink on off-white modern laid paper; pricked and verso rubbed with red chalk (recto)

Invocation (Basmala)

Muhammad Qazwini, 1845

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Folio 4 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Dancer with finger-cymbals (recto); Embracing couple approached by a woman (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 20 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Holy Family with winged angel in oval frame (recto); Three drawings of figures in European dress (verso)

Blue-gray ink on off-white laid paper, pricked and verso pounced with red chalk (recto); Top: blue-green counterproof on off-white wove paper (verso); Middle: black coutnerproof on off-white wove paper (verso); Bottom: red-brown ink and graphite on off-white wove paper (verso)