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

19th centuryPersian

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Letter with New Year's Greetings to Muhammad `Ali Qajar

Unknown Artist, 1894

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

19th centuryPersian

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Fly leaf with dedication note and text (dedication note recto, text verso of folio 1) from a manuscript of Khwaja ‘Abd Allah Ansari’s Advise

Unknown Artist, dated 1877

Ink, colors, and gold on paper

19th centuryPersian

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Qajar Youth Seated against Cushions (pricked drawing)

Unknown Artist, 19th century

Ink, black chalk and graphite on paper

19th centuryPersian

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Folio 39 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Three sheets: women delousing children; women with European man; women with nursing child (recto); Fingernail drawing: child in classical garb (verso)

Unknown Artist, 19th century

Top: red ink over graphite on off-white wove paper (recto); Top: black ink; Middle: red ink over graphite on off-white wove paper; Bottom: red ink over graphite on off-white wove paper (verso)

19th centuryPersian

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Flower

Unknown Artist, 18th-19th century

18th-19th centuryPersian

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Folio 41 from an Album of Artists' Drawings from Qajar Iran: Four sheets: Pen box design with reclining females and attendants in landscape (top), Portrait bust of Muhammad Shah Qajar (center), European woman with bouquet and shawl (center), Pen box design with reclining females and attendants in landscape, divided by medallions (bottom) (recto); The Binding of Isaac (verso)

Unknown Artist, 1780-1860

Left: Brown counterproof, brown ink and graphite on off-white wove paper (recto); Top middle: graphite on off-white wove paper (recto); Bottom middle: black counterproof on off-white wove paper; pricked (recto); Right: Black counterproof, red ink and watercolor on laid paper; pricked and verso rubbed with red chalk (recto); Brown ink on brown laid paper, oiled for transparency (verso)

18th-19th centuryPersian

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Folio 29 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Three sheets: woman nursing child; old woman; amorous couple (recto); Two drawings mounted within colored paper borders: Shaykh San`an and the Christian maiden; Dervishes gathered by a stream (verso)

Unknown Artist, 19th century

Top: brown ink over traces of graphite on beige wove paper, burnished; Middle: brown ink over traces of graphite on off-white paper; pricked; Bottom: brown ink on off white wove paper; Bottom verso: red and brown ink; Bottom verso: red and brown ink (recto) Right: brown ink over graphite on off-white laid (?) paper; pricked; Left: black ink with traces of black chalk on beige wove paper; rubbed with red chalk (verso)

19th centuryPersian

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Folio 17 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Three drawings: man and peacock; gathering of men on a terrace; woman and rabbit (recto) Two drawings: Shirin on horseback visits Farhad at Mt. Bisutun; Bahram Gur succeeds at Azada's shooting challenges (verso)

Unknown Artist, 19th century

Left: black counterproof on off-white laid paper; Center: black counterproof, colored inks with touches of graphite on off-white paper; pricked; Right: black counterproof and light brown ink on laid paper; pricked and pounced with red chalk, verso rubbed with red chalk and black chalk (?) (recto); Red ink and graphite on off-white blue-lined wove paper; pricked and verso rubbed with red chalk (verso)

19th centuryPersian