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)

Folio 26 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Two sheets: pair of dervishes; three dervishes with snake (recto); Blank page (verso)

Top: light brown ink on off-white wove paper, burnished; Bottom: light green ink on off-white wove paper (recto)

Folio 24 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Mir Fenderesky and Shaykh Bistam (recto); Two drawings of women: dancer; cupbearer (verso)

Red ink over graphite on beige wove paper; burnished (recto); Top: red and red-brown inks over graphite on off-white wove paper; pricked and rubbed with red chalk; Bottom: red-brown ink over graphite on off-white wove paper (verso)

Folio 27 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Two sheets: male and female drum players (recto); Blank page (verso)

Left: brown and light red inks over graphite; pricked and verso rubbed with red chalk; Right: brown ink and blue colored pencil on off-white wove paper; pricked and rubbed with red chalk (recto)

Folio 51 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Portrait of a dervish (recto); Sacrifice of Isaac (verso)

Graphite on off-white paper mounted overall to secondary support (album page) with green paper border (recto); Relief print and watercolor on off-white wove paper (verso)

Unknown Artist, 18th-19th century

Flower and Butterfly

18th-19th centuryPersian

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

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

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

Folio 53 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Figures in porticoes surrounding fruit trees (recto); Five drawings of flowers framed by a colored paper border (verso)

Watercolor, black chalk, blue colored pencil with touches of graphite on off-white wove paper; pricked (recto); Brown ink with touches of pink ink on off-white wove papers (verso); Note: drawings mounted overall with colored paper borders (verso)

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

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Unknown Artist, early 19th century

Rose and Nightingale

Watercolor on paper

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

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Folio 55 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Three sheets: portrait bust of a Qajar courtier; sketches of figures (recto); Woman in European dress with attendants (verso)

Top: blue counterproof on off-white Eastern paper (recto); Middle: watercolor and colored inks on off-white paper (recto); Middle: pink ink and graphite (verso); Bottom: graphite and pink ink on beige wove paper (recto); Red counterproof and watercolor on blue Eastern paper (verso)