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

19th centuryPersian

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Flower and Butterfly

Unknown Artist, 18th-19th century

18th-19th centuryPersian

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Lakshmana Removes a Thorn from Rama's Foot

Unknown Artist, c. 1700-1710

Opaque watercolor and gold on paper; Pahari Style, Basohli School

18th centuryIndian

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Portrait of Shah Abbas I and a Page, folio from an album

Mu’in Musavvir, 1632-1633 (dated 1042 AH)

Opaque watercolor, gold and silver on paper

17th centuryPersian

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Album of Fingernail Artwork

Unknown Artist, 19th century

Paper; leather binding

19th centuryPersian

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Calligraphy Exercise for the Letter "Sad", (recto and verso), folio from an album

Sultan Muhammad Nur, 16th-17th century

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

16th-17th centuryPersian

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Arabesque with Dragon and Parrot

Unknown Artist, 15th century

Black ink and opaque watercolor on off-white paper: pricked (dragon only)

15th century

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A Woman Bathing in the Ganges; from an Album entitled “Costumes of India”

Lucknow Company School, c. 1800

Opaque watercolor on paper

19th centuryIndian

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Flower

Unknown Artist, 18th-19th century

18th-19th centuryPersian

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A Maiden Reclines, drawing by Aqa Riza (recto); calligraphy by Ahmad al-Husayni (verso)

Aqa Riza (Riza ‘Abbasi), late 16th century

Black ink on off-white paper

16th centuryPersian

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Lady Alone at Holi Festival

Unknown Artist, c. 1780

Opaque watercolor and gold on paper; Pahari School, Kangra Style

18th centuryIndian