Top: black counterproof on off-white wove paper; Top verso: black counterproof on off-white wove paper; Bottom: green and brown inks over traces of graphite on off-white laid paper; ink and opaque watercolor on paper (recto)

19th centuryPersian

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The King of Delhi, Descendant of a Schab, whose Eyes were Put out in Ld. Clive's Time when he was Delivered up to the English; from an Album entitled “Costumes of India”

Lucknow Company School, c. 1800

Opaque watercolor on paper

19th centuryIndian

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Folio 1 from an Album of Hadith Written in Nashki Calligraphy

`Ali Wasfi, 1762-1763

Ink opaque watercolor and gold on paper

18th centuryOttoman

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Virahotkanthita Nayika on a Terrace with a Pigeon

Unknown Artist, early 19th century

Opaque watercolor and gold on paper; Pahari Style, Kangra School

19th centuryIndian

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Calligraphy, Verses by Nizami Surrounded by Expressions of Self-reflection (recto); Drawing, Dragon in Foliage (verso)

Sultan Muhammad Khandan, 15th century

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

15th centuryPersian

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Nayika wringing her hair after a bath

Unknown Artist, 17th century

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

17th centuryMughal

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Paintings (recto and verso), folio 7 from an album

Unknown Artist, c. 1767

Opaque watercolor on paper

18th centuryIndian

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Romantic Verses, folio from an album made for Shah Jahan

Unknown Artist, 17th century

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

17th centuryIndian

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Portrait of a Prince

Unknown Artist, 18th-19th century

Opaque watercolor and gold on paper

18th-19th centuryIndian