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A Messenger is Dispatched: Page from a Dispersed Manuscript

Woman Addressing a Peacock: Gujari Ragini of Megh, from a Ragamala

A Disconsolate Lady on a Terrace with Attendants

Vasant Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Alexander the Great Enthroned at Persepolis

Abhisarika Nayika (Heroine Running to Meet her Lover)

A Procession Scene with Musicians, from a copy of the Padshanama

A Virtuous Woman Placates the King by Plucking Out Her Eyes

European Banquet Scene (or The Marriage Feast at Cana?)

Friends of Krishna, folio 163 from a Bhakti Ratnavali of Vishnu Puri

Khambavati Ragini: Page from a Dispersed Ragamala Series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Ruler Entertained by Dancers in a Paradise Garden

Angel (Peri) Riding a Composite Camel

Zal Climbing to Rudaba, page from a copy of the Shahnama of Firdausi

Ragini Gaudi, Page from a Jaipur Ragamala Set

Krishna and Radha in a Pavilion, from a copy of the Seven Hundred Verses (Sat Sai) of Bihari

Alauddin Khilji Conquering Ranthamore Fort, Kangra school, India, late 18th century, opaque watercolor on paper, Tokyo National Museum

Heer Ranjha: Lady with Water Jug on her Head and Lady Holding out her Arms, Jodhpur school, India, c. mid-18th century, opaque watercolor on paper, Tokyo National Museum

An Old Sufi Laments His Lost Youth

Prince and Princess Hunting Blackbuck

Maharana Bhim Singh in Procession

Krishna's Fifth and Sixth Avatars, page from a copy of the Gitagovinda of Jayaveda

Krishna with an Ascetic

The Infant Krishna Spirited Away by Vasudev, from a copy of the Dispersed Bhagavat Purana

Krishna Fluting

"Black Buck", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Queen Kaikeyi reminds King Dasharatha about the sacrifices of King Bali and King Shivi, folio 39 from the Ayodhya Kanda (Book of Ayodhya) of a Ramayana (Rama's Journey)

Portrait of Emperor Jahangir

Folk Painting

Pradyumna and Samvara fight with maces, from the "Large Basohli Bhagavata Purana"

Young Woman Smoking a Huqqa

"Dancing Dervishes", Folio from a Divan of Hafiz

This drawing, Walters manuscript leaf W.749, was executed in Safavid Iran, most probably in the late 10th century AH/AD 16th, in Qazvin or Isfahan. Above, a farmer plows; below, a seated young man watches a produce seller weigh his purchase. On the rocks in the center foreground is inscribed the name of one of the most famous painters in Iran in the 11th century AH/AD 17th, Riza 'Abbasi (active 1001-1044 AH/AD 1591-1592 to 1634). As the handwriting does not match that of the artist, an admirer of Riza's work seems to have attributed the drawing to him. The execution and the bucolic subject matter of this drawing relate closely to the oeuvre of the Persian artist Muhammadi Haravi (active late 10th century AH/AD 16th), who worked in Qazvin. It is possible that this composition was conceived as a manuscript page.

Kichik Beg Wounded during Babur's Attack on Qalat, from a copy of the Baburnama (Book of Babur)

Four Portraits from the St. Petersburg Album. Painters unknown, borders by Muhammad Sadiq. Top left: Nadir Shah, Iran, ca. 1740. Top right: Adil Shah, Iran, ca. 1748. Bottom left: Unidentified nobleman, Mughal school, 18th century. Bottom right: Unidentified nobleman, Mughal school, 18th century. Art Institute of Chicago 1919.952 recto

A Stallion

The Young Emperor Akbar Arrests the Insolent Shah Abu’l-Maali, Page from a Manuscript of the Akbarnama

The work of Carl Blechen, a pivotal ﬁgure in 19th-century German painting, marks a transition from Romanticism to a more realistic view of nature. Inspired in part by his encounter with the Italian landscape and light during a trip he made around 1828 or 1829, Blechen developed a ﬂuid technique that enabled him to capture ﬂeeting atmospheric effects. He often used his landscapes as settings for mysterious ﬁgures, reﬂecting his early contact with Romantic painting and theater.

This illustration from Walters manuscript W.644 depicts Zulaykha in a blue-domed litter on a camel led by a cameleer. The retinue is entering the capital of Egypt.

Tile Panel

Garden Gathering

Asavari Ragini, page from a Garland of Musical Ragas (Ragamala) Set

Ingelijste muurschildering voorstellende Xiwangmu en dienaressen

"The Funeral of Isfandiyar," Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)

"The Concourse of the Birds", Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds)

Thanka with Buddha

Sceneries in the Tropical Land, by Imamura Shiko, Tokyo National Museum, Japan

Portrait of Prince Sur Singh Rathor of Bikaner (1594–1631)

Maharana Sangram Singh Riding a Prize Stallion

Peahen and hibiscus

On this folio from Walters manuscript W.604, King Qizil Arslan welcomes the poet Nizami.

Durga Slaying Mahisha

Green Tara

A Monumental Portrait of a Monkey

Portrait of a Ladakhi Mountain Goat

Velvet Fragment with Design from Nizami of Ganja's Khusrau and Shirin

Al-Mu'tazz Sends Gifts to Abdulla ibn Abdulla, from a copy of the Tarikh-i Alfi

慈眼大師像

An Artisan’s Shop, from the album The Mist of Sandara (Sandara kasumi)

Birds and Flowers

Amir Khusrau Dedicates His Poem to Sultan Ala al-Din Khalji, page from the Quintet (Khamsa) of Amir Khusraw Dehlavi

Phoenixes and Paulownia

This folio from Walters manuscript W.677 depicts Bahram Gur in a peasant's house.

Peacocks and Bamboo

暮れて月いとおもしろきに、宮の亮、女房にあひて、とりわきたるよろこびも啓せさせむとにやあらむ、妻戸のわたりも御湯殿のけはひに濡れ、人の音もせざりければ、この渡殿の東のつまなる宮の内侍の局に立ち寄りて、「ここにや」と案内したまふ。宰相は中の間に寄りて、まだ鎖さぬ格子の上押し上げて、「おはすや」などあれど、いらへもせぬに、な大夫の、「ここにや」とのたまふにさへ、聞きしのばむもことごとしきやうなれば、はかなきいらへなどす。いと思ふことなげなる御けしきどもなり。

A Young Prince on Horseback

Carpet

The Greedy Dog

Leaf from Album of Persian Calligraphy

Krishna and Balarama Fight the Evil King Kamsa’s Wrestlers: Page from a Dispersed Bhagavata Purana

Birds and Flowers

Hunting Scene

Portrait of Momonoi Naoaki

Peonies

The Merry Family

This folio from Walters manuscript W.596 depicts the fall of Samarqand.

Silk Animal Carpet

Mandarin ducks and cotton rose hibiscus

On this folio from Walters manuscript W.653, a middle-aged woman stands in a landscape, holding a vase of flowers. The salmon pink margins are stenciled with animal and floral forms. The catchword at the lower left indicates that the following folio is missing.

Carpet with Triple-Arch Design

Paradise

Daibutsu and Scaffolding, by Migita Toshihide, 1895, Meiji 27, from the Hood Museum of Art - PR.995.23.9ab.

Velvet and Silk Carpet

This page from Walters manuscript W.674 bears 4 diplomas written within illuminated cartouches inscribed in ijazah script by the following master calligraphers: Yaziji zadah, Isma'il al-Zuhdi Katib al-Saray al-Sultani, Muhammad Hasib, and 'Ali al-Wasfi. The page is dated 1219 AH/AD 1804-1805.

Bahram Gur Arrives at the House of a Merchant, text page (recto); Bahram Gur Slays a Dragon (verso), from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (940–1019 or 1025), known as the Great Mongol Shahnama

Buddhist Deities

Rustam's seventh course: He kills the White Div, folio 124 from a Shah-nama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (Persian, about 934–1020)

Tigers Chasing Deer, with Dragon

Stela of Amenemhat and Hemet

Manuchehr Kills Tur, Manuscript from Shahnama

Flowers and Goldfish

Hunting and fishing scenes

Collection of Poems (Divan)

Carpet with Palm Trees, Ibexes, and Birds

Crossing at Sano

Night Rain at the Double-Shelf Stand, from the series Eight Parlor Views (Zashiki hakkei)

Ushibori in Hitachi Province (Joshu Ushibori), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)"

Gibbons in a Landscape

Sixteenth Arhat, Cūḍapanthaka (from the Sixteen Arhats)