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Album Folio with Three Specimens of Calligraphy

Album Folio with Three Specimens of Calligraphy

Mughal

Book of Calligraphy and Designs for Emma and Fusuma

Book of Calligraphy and Designs for Emma and Fusuma

Japanese

Letter with New Year's Greetings to Muhammad `Ali Qajar

Letter with New Year's Greetings to Muhammad `Ali Qajar

Persian

Opening folios from a Calligraphic Manual

Opening folios from a Calligraphic Manual

Ottoman

A Japanese woman sits with her legs stretched along the floor facing left with a stringed instrument in her lap.

Woman with Shamisen Reading, 1787 - 1832

Yanagawa Shigenobu

Two Japanese men in opposite corners of the print  look intensely at each other.

Actors Ichikawa Danjūrō VII and His Son Ichikawa Ebizō VI (Danjūrō VIII), 1786 - 1864

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞

Chancery Document, folio from an album

Chancery Document, folio from an album, active mid-16th century

Calligraphy by Ikhtiyar al-Munshi (also called Kamal al Din)

Carrying a Coffin

Carrying a Coffin, born 1964

José Santos

Two Columns of Calligraphy, Each with Five Characters

Two Columns of Calligraphy, Each with Five Characters

Korean

Two Columns of Calligraphy, Each with Five Characters

Two Columns of Calligraphy, Each with Five Characters

Korean

Bound book, (W460.1-19), Calligraphy book

Bound book, (W460.1-19), Calligraphy book, 1943 - 1987

Christopher Wilmarth

One of three pages from an album of calligraphy

One of three pages from an album of calligraphy

Ottoman

One of three pages from an album of calligraphy

One of three pages from an album of calligraphy

Ottoman

One of three pages from an album of calligraphy

One of three pages from an album of calligraphy

Ottoman

Album Page with Painting of a Seated Woman and Calligraphy

Album Page with Painting of a Seated Woman and Calligraphy, 1570 - 1605

Keshav Das

Girl Practicing Calligraphy representing Knowledge (Chi)

Girl Practicing Calligraphy representing Knowledge (Chi), 1725-1770

Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木春信

Fan with Landscape on One Side and Calligraphy on the Other

Fan with Landscape on One Side and Calligraphy on the Other

Chinese

Model Calligraphy Scroll: Letters (Koōrai)

Model Calligraphy Scroll: Letters (Koōrai), 1298 - 1356

Attributed to Prince Son'en

Vertical Wooden Panel: The Shrines of Arabia with Calligraphy

Vertical Wooden Panel: The Shrines of Arabia with Calligraphy

Ottoman

Dragon in Foliage (drawing, recto); calligraphy, (verso)

Dragon in Foliage (drawing, recto); calligraphy, (verso)

Drawing signed by Mir Sayyid Muhammad Naqqash

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