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)

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)

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

Verse Written for a Royal Physician, folio from an album

'Abd al-Rahim Afsar, 1893-1894

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Folio 23 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Three sheets: bird and flower designs for a penbox; polylobed cartouche enclosing couple (recto); Blank page (verso)

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

Folio 14 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Two drawings of workmen: vendor and hat maker (recto); Blank page (verso)

Left: brown ink over graphite on off-white modern laid paper; pricked and pounced with charcoal; Right: brown ink over graphite on off-white modern laid paper; pricked and pounced with charcoal (recto)

Calligraphic Composition in the Shape of a Bird

Unknown Artist, 1804

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

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)

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)

Unknown Artist, early 19th century

Rose and Nightingale

Watercolor 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)

Calligraphy Exercise (Siyah Mashq) in Nasta`liq Script

Muhammad Sadiq, 19th-20th century

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

19th-20th centuryPersian

Folio 2 from an Album of Artists' Drawings from Qajar Iran: Blank page (recto); Birds, flowers, and butterflies (verso)

Unknown Artist, 1775-1850

Black ink on off-white modern laid paper; pricked (verso)

18th-19th centuryPersian

Folio 15 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Two drawings of workmen: tailor and man with washboard (recto); Blank page (verso)

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)