Top: brown ink on tan Eastern paper; Middle: brown ink and watercolor on off-white wove paper; Bottom: brown ink on tan Eastern paper; selectively pricked and pounced with black chalk

19th centuryPersian

Albums

Duck in Foliage

Unknown Artist, 16th century

Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

16th centuryOttoman

Albums

Portrait of Five Seated Clerics, painting by Abu'l Hasan Naqqash Bashi, with Couplet in Praise of the Prophet's family, calligraphy by an unknown artist, folio from an album

Abu'l Hasan Naqqash Bashi, 1859

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

19th centuryPersian

Albums

Gathering of Sages by a Stream

Unknown Artist, c. 1610-1615

Opaque watercolor, gold and silver on paper

17th centuryIndian

Albums

Nayika wringing her hair after a bath

Unknown Artist, 17th century

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

17th centuryMughal

Albums

Folio 13 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Two sheets of workmen: clothes-presser and tinsmith (recto); Blank page (verso)

Unknown Artist, 19th century

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

19th centuryPersian