Text folio (text recto; text verso of folio 40) from a manuscript of Yusuf and Zulaykha by Nizami
Persian
Text folio (text recto; text verso of folio 99) from a manuscript of Yusuf and Zulaykha by Nizami
Persian
Pump for Raising Water (painting, recto; text, verso), folio from a manuscript of the Kitab fi Ma'rifat al-Hiyal al-Handasiyya (Book of Ingenious Mechanical Devices) of al-Jazari
Arab
Head of a Bodhisattva, d. 1057
Attributed to Jōchō
A Maiden Reclines, drawing by Aqa Riza (recto); calligraphy by Ahmad al-Husayni (verso), c. 1560-70 - 1635
Attributed to Aqa Riza (Riza ‘Abbasi)
Yoke
Unidentified Artist
Dante and Virgil on the Edge of the Stygian Pool (from Dante's "Divine Comedy"), 1757 - 1827
William Blake
Let the Day Perish Wherein I Was Born (The Book of Job), 1757 - 1827
William Blake
Mill on a Rocky Hill with Waterfall and Pool, 1779 - 1843
Washington Allston
Sketch for "The Discoverer" Fresco, Assembly Chamber, State Capitol, Albany, New York, 1824 - 1879
William Morris Hunt
Landscape with Boat, 1837 - 1911
Alphonse Legros
Merjelen See, 1856 - 1925
John Singer Sargent
Mercy Greenleaf Scollay (Mrs. John Scollay) (1719-1793), 1738 - 1815
John Singleton Copley
Plant and Insect Study: Chrysanthemum; Cardui Butterfly
Unidentified Artist
Untitled (five photographs, clockwise from upper left, Sir Archibald Hope; Lady Hope; Lady Edwin Hill; Mrs. Goff; center, Viscountess Holmesdale), 1838-1903
Mary Georgiana Caroline Cecil Filmer
Untitled (five photographs, clockwise from upper left, Miss Hood; Miss Chetwynd; Lydia Hibbert and Catherine Stonor; Minnie Bertie; center, Miss Fellows), 1838-1903