Left: brown and light red inks over graphite; pricked and verso rubbed with red chalk; Right: brown ink and blue colored pencil on off-white wove paper; pricked and rubbed with red chalk (recto)

19th centuryPersian

Albums

Folio 6 from an Album of Hadith Written in Nashki Calligraphy

`Ali Wasfi, 1762-1763

Ink opaque watercolor and gold on paper

18th centuryOttoman

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Sea Serpent (al-Tannin)

Unknown Artist, 15th century

Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

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Folio 10 from an Album of Calligraphic Panels

Unknown Artist, 17th-18th century

Ink with opaque watercolor and gold on paper

17th-18th centuryIndian

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Calligraphy in nasta`liq script in Arabic

Unknown Artist, 16th-17th century

Ink, color, and gold on paper

16th-17th centuryPersian

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Didactic Verses by Sa'di, folio from an album

Mir `Ali al-Katib al-Sultani, 17th-18th century

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

17th-18th centuryPersian

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Two Young Men Under a Tree Beside a River

Unknown Artist, c. 1600-1610

Opaque watercolor on paper

17th centuryOttoman

Albums

Folio 9 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Amir Kabir in audience with kneeling courtiers (recto); Blank page (verso)

Unknown Artist, 19th century

Graphite on off-white wove paper; pricked (recto)

19th centuryPersian

Albums

Folio 48 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Bird and flower design (recto); Blank page (verso)

Unknown Artist, 19th century

Black counterproof with red and blue inks on off-white modern laid paper

19th centuryPersian