The Lotus Sutra (Miaofa Lianhua Jing) with Illustrated Frontispiece
Chinese
Afterword by Akerakan Shujin (Akera Kankō) from the printed album "A Competition Among the New Beauties of the Yoshiwara Mirrored in Their Writing" (Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami), 1761 - 1816
Kitao Masanobu 北尾政演
Malasri Ragini (painting, recto), from the Chunar Ragamala (Garland of Melodies) Series
Indian
One of three pages from an album of calligraphy
Ottoman
Krishna Quells the Serpent Kaliya (painting, recto), folio from a Bhagavata Purana series
Indian
Temperance, 1571 - 1631
Jacob Matham
The Penates Appearing to Aeneas in His Dream, 1573 - 1647
Sebastian Vrancx
Buddhist Sutra: Myobŏp Yŏnhwa Kyŏng (Chinese, Miaofa Lianhua Jing; Sanskrit Saddharmapundarika Sutra; English, Lotus Sutra), One Page from Chapter 23 on the Medicine King (Yak'wang; Chinese, Yaowang)
Korean
Mahiya frees Zambur, Beheads his sleeping guards, and suspends Gharrad in his stead (painting, verso); Nine Lines of Nasta‘liq Script (text, recto), illustrated folio from a manuscript of the Hamzanama, 16th century
Attributed to Mir Sayyid ‘Ali
Portrait of a Woman, after a Drawing in the Uffizi then attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, 1834 - 1917
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas
George Washington (1732-1799), 1741 - 1827
Charles Willson Peale
Study for Scene from "Of Two Squares", 1890 - 1941
El Lissitzky
The Constellation Cassiopeia (painting, recto; text, verso), folio from an Arabic manuscript of the Kitab Suwar al-Kawakib of al-Sufi
Persian
Sketchbook: Studies for Portraits, 1856 - 1925
John Singer Sargent
Female Figure
Unidentified Artist
Tale of the Rat (Nezumi zōshi emaki), active c. 1469-1522
Attributed to Tosa Mitsunobu
Hat, Shoes and Undergarments (Study for "Une baignade, Asnières), 1859 - 1891