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Folio 15 from an Album of Calligraphy

Folio 15 from an Album of Calligraphy

Persian

Folio 16 from an Album of Calligraphy

Folio 16 from an Album of Calligraphy

Persian

Folio 17 from an Album of Calligraphy

Folio 17 from an Album of Calligraphy

Persian

Calligraphy in nasta`liq script in Arabic

Calligraphy in nasta`liq script in Arabic

Persian

Ownership Notes and Stamps (recto), The Angels Who Pray for the King, Introduction (frontispiece painting, verso), folio 1 from an illustrated Manuscript of the Guy u Chawgan by `Arifi

Ownership Notes and Stamps (recto), The Angels Who Pray for the King, Introduction (frontispiece painting, verso), folio 1 from an illustrated Manuscript of the Guy u Chawgan by `Arifi, flourished 1514-43

Calligraphy attributed to Mir Ali al Husayni

The Angels Who Pray for the King, Introduction (frontispiece painting, recto), Text (verso), folio 2 from a Manuscript of the Guy u Chawgan by `Arifi

The Angels Who Pray for the King, Introduction (frontispiece painting, recto), Text (verso), folio 2 from a Manuscript of the Guy u Chawgan by `Arifi, flourished 1514-43

Calligraphy attributed to Mir Ali al Husayni

Untitled (Japan)

Untitled (Japan), 1898 - 1969

Ben Shahn

Folio from a Qur'an: Sura 23: 80-92 (recto), Sura 23: 92-104 (verso)

Folio from a Qur'an: Sura 23: 80-92 (recto), Sura 23: 92-104 (verso)

Arab

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 柳川重信

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)

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

Folio 6 from an Album of Calligraphic Panels

Folio 6 from an Album of Calligraphic Panels

Calligraphy by Sultan Muhammad Nur

Folio 15 from an Album of Calligraphic Panels

Folio 15 from an Album of Calligraphic Panels

Calligraphy by `Ala al-Din

Folio 18 from an Album of Calligraphic Panels

Folio 18 from an Album of Calligraphic Panels

Calligraphy by Khanur Khan `Aqil

Calligraphy, Verses by Nizami Surrounded by Expressions of Self-reflection (recto); Drawing, Dragon in Foliage (verso)

Calligraphy, Verses by Nizami Surrounded by Expressions of Self-reflection (recto); Drawing, Dragon in Foliage (verso)

Calligraphy by Sultan Muhammad Khandan

Verses Praising the Ascetic Life, calligraphy by Mir `Ali Haravi, with elaborate figural paintings in the border by an unknown artist, folio from the Gulshan Album

Verses Praising the Ascetic Life, calligraphy by Mir `Ali Haravi, with elaborate figural paintings in the border by an unknown artist, folio from the Gulshan Album, Calligrapher, active late 15th to first half of 16th century

Calligraphy by Mir `Ali Haravi

Majnun, drawing by an unknown artist, surrounded by didactic verses (recto); Couplets Describing the Beloved in Terms of the Sun and the Moon, calligraphy by Mir 'Ali (verso), folio from an album

Majnun, drawing by an unknown artist, surrounded by didactic verses (recto); Couplets Describing the Beloved in Terms of the Sun and the Moon, calligraphy by Mir 'Ali (verso), folio from an album

Calligraphy by (Signed by) Mir `Ali

Verses about the Quality of Ink, folio from an album

Verses about the Quality of Ink, folio from an album

Calligraphy by Shams al-Udaba

Quotations from the Hadikat al-Hakika of Sana'i, folio from an album

Quotations from the Hadikat al-Hakika of Sana'i, folio from an album

Calligraphy by `Ali Riza 'Abbasi

Verses from the Divan by Sa'di, folio from an album

Verses from the Divan by Sa'di, folio from an album

Calligraphy by Mirza Kuchik Isfahani

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