Sketchbook: Figure, Animal, and Architectural Sketches, 1856 - 1925
John Singer Sargent
Episodes from the Marriage of Krishna and Rukmini (painting, recto); Battle scene from the Marriage of Krishna and Rukmini (painting, verso), folios from a Bhagavata Purana series
Indian
Pen Box with Elderly Saints
Najaf `Ali
Zodiac from the Castle Water Clock (painting, recto; text, verso), folio from a manuscript of the Kitab fi Ma 'rifat al-Hiyal al-Handasiya (Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices), 14th century
al-Jazari
Book XXXVIII.49-50. Scipio Asiaticus (Lucius Cornelius Scipio) convicted of embezzling and ordered to prison, his relations contribute to his fine {Quarte Decadis Liber Octavus p. CCXXXVIII verso}
Anonymous Germany
Woman Holding the Under the Cherry Blossoms (Hana no en) Volume of the Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari)/ Books (Bunsho), from the series Seven Designs for the Katsushika Circle (Katsushika shichiban tsuzuki), with poems by Rokuzōtei Hōba and Bungaen Tomom, 1786? - 1868
Yashima Gakutei 八島岳亭
Treatise on Meditation (S: Yogâcâra-bhumi; J: Yugashiji-ron) Vol. 9
Japanese
Commentary on the Greater Sutra of the Perfection of Wisdom (Daichido-ron) Vol. 90 (Inside title: Makahannya-haramitsubon Vol. 78) from Ishiyama-dera in Shiga Prefecture
Japanese
One Page from the Ksitigarbha-Bodhisattva-Pranidhana-Sutra (Sutra of the Oath of the Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha), 1418 - 1453
Attributed to Prince Yi Yong (An-p'yŏng Tae-kun, Prince An-p'yŏng)
Histamenon of the Augusta Eudokia Makrembolitissa, r. 1067
Eudokia Makrembolitissa
Court Betrothal Scene
Unidentified Artist
Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834), 1795 - 1858
Ary Scheffer
Seven Chinese Immortals, 1752 - 1811
Goshun 呉春 (Matsumura Gekkei 松村月渓)
The Peacock Skirt, 1872 - 1898
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley
A Study for Christ for "The Elevation of the Cross", 1577 - 1640
Peter Paul Rubens
Casket
Indian
Histamenon of the Augusta Theodora Makrembolitissa, r. 830 - 856
Augusta Theodora
Lotus Sutra, Yakusōyu-bon (Hokke-kyō Yakusōyu-bon) Vol. 5
Japanese
Book XXIII.31. Prodigies: A cow at Sinuessa gives forth a foal, statues in the Temple of Juno Sospita at Livinium sweat blood, a shower of stones fell around the same temple {Tertiae Decadis Liber Tertius p. CXVIII}
Anonymous Italy (Venice) 1493
Two Eminences Observed, folio from an album, active 16th century
Attributed to Mirza ‘Ali