19th century
Folio: 32.5 x 22 cm Recto: sheet at left: 16.9 x 4 cm; sheet at center: 22 x 10.7 cm; sheet at right: 16 x 3.7 cm Verso: sheet at top: 10.3 x 13 cm; sheet at bottom: 9.6 x 12.2 cm
Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper
19th centuryPersianRed 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)
19th centuryPersianBrown ink on off-white modern laid paper; pricked and verso rubbed with red chalk (recto)
19th centuryPersianInk, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
19th centuryPersianInk, colors, and gold on paper; leather binding with gilded tooling
19th centuryPersianGreen 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 centuryPersianInk, opaque watercolor and gold on paper
19th centuryPersianInk, opaque watercolor and gold on paper
19th centuryPersianBrown ink and graphite on off-white wove paper; pricked, edges and verso rubbed with red chalk (recto); Red and brown inks and graphite on off-white modern laid paper; pricked and rubbed with red chalk (verso)
19th centuryPersianGraphite on off-white wove paper; pricked (recto)
19th centuryPersianWatercolor, 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)
19th centuryPersian