Taking Advantage of the Right Moment, convincing the Chinese to accept being Paid Two Hundred Millions in Opium, 1808-1879
Honoré-Victorin Daumier
Portrait of R. P. Spiers, Architect, 1848 - 1917
Edouard Lanteri
Young Monk, 1727 - 1792
Benigno Bossi
Half-Blood Horse, 1796 - 1875
Antoine Louis Barye
Illustrated Manuscript of Layla and Majnun by Nizami
Persian
Illustrated Manuscript of the Kulliyat (Complete Works) of Sa'di
Persian
Krishna encounters Kotara, the mother of the thousand-armed demon Bana (painting, recto; text, verso), folio from a Bhagavata Purana series
Indian
The Mean Teacher Who Beat Children at School (text recto; painting verso of folio 64), painting from a manuscript of the Kulliyat of Sa‘di
Persian
The Man Who Disrespected Hajjaj b. Yusuf (painting recto; text verso of folio 64), painting from a manuscript of the Kulliyat of Sa‘di
Persian
Untitled (text, bleed-through of previous page, left page); Untitled (profile portait of female figure (Elizabeth Goldring), right page), 1928 - 2014
Otto Piene
Musa's Rod(?) Swallowing the Magician's Eyes (painting, recto; text, verso), folio 83 from a manuscript of the Qisas al-Anbiya (Tales of the Prophets) of Ishaq b. Ibrahim al-Nayshaburi
Ottoman
Winged Quadruped with Duck Bill (painting, recto), Text (verso), folio 36 from Illustrated Manuscript of Tarjama-i Tarikh-i Yangi Dunya (Translation of the History of the New World)
Ottoman
Text (recto), Young Prince Accepts a Polo Ball from the Dervish (painting, verso), illustrated folio (28) from a Manuscript of the Guy u Chawgan by `Arifi, flourished 1514-43
Calligraphy attributed to Mir Ali al Husayni
Majnun as a Sheep Looking at Layla (painting, recto; text, verso), illustrated folio from a manuscript of Mantiq al-Tayr (Conference of the Birds) by Farid al-Din Attar (d. 1221)
Ottoman
Hexagonal Tile with Birds amid Palmette Blossoms and Serrated Leaves
Ottoman
The Lotus Sutra (Miaofa Lianhua Jing) with Illustrated Frontispiece
Chinese
A King Performing a Ritual (painting, recto; painting, verso), illustration from a Ramayana series
Indian
Battle Between Ghatotkacha and Karna, illustrated folio from a manuscript of the Mahabharata