Left: red ink on off-white modern laid paper; pricked and rubbed with red chalk; Middle: brown ink on off-white wove paper; Middle verso: brown ink and watercolor, Right: red and blue-black inks on off-white modern laid paper; pricked and rubbed with red chalk (recto)

19th centuryPersian

Albums

Vasakasajja Nayika with Female Attendants

Unknown Artist, 18th century

Opaque watercolor and gold on paper;

18th-19th centuryIndian

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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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Verses by Hafiz (recto and verso), folio from an album

Muhammad al-Abrishami al-Mashhadi, 17th century

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

17th centuryPersian

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Krishna and Radha Embrace during a Storm (recto); Priests Worship Shrinathji (verso); folio from a royal Kota-Jaipur album

Unknown Artist, c. 1720-1730

Opaque watercolor and gold on paper

18th centuryIndian

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Turkish Bride, folio from a costume album

Unknown Artist, 17th century

Opaque watercolor on paper

18th centuryOttoman

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Bifolio from an Album of Calligraphic Exercises

Al-Hajj al-‘Arif, 1896

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

19th centuryOttoman

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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

Albums

Folio 52 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: King on horseback embraced by angel (recto); Bust portrait of a young woman, probably Pourandokht, with tiara and headscarves (verso)

Unknown Artist, 19th century

Watercolor, black chalk and blue colored pencil on off-white wove paper; pricked (recto); Watercolor, silver and gold over graphite on off-white modern laid paper (verso)

19th centuryPersian