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Abhisarika Nayika (Heroine Running to Meet her Lover)

Ragini Gaudi, Page from a Jaipur Ragamala Set

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

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

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

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

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)

Angel (Peri) Riding a Composite Camel

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

A Disconsolate Lady on a Terrace with Attendants

Maharana Amar Singh II with Ladies of the Zenana outside the Picture Hall at Rajnagar

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

Krishna Fluting

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

Alexander the Great Enthroned at Persepolis

Folk Painting

Krishna with an Ascetic

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

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

An Old Sufi Laments His Lost Youth

Prince and Princess Hunting Blackbuck

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

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

The Greedy Dog

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

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.

Green Tara

"Black Buck", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

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

Durga Slaying Mahisha

A Virtuous Woman Placates the King by Plucking Out Her Eyes

A Messenger is Dispatched: Page from a Dispersed Manuscript

慈眼大師像

Girl Arranging Flowers

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

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

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

Portrait of Emperor Jahangir

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.

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

"Dancing Dervishes", Folio from a Divan of Hafiz

Portrait of a Ladakhi Mountain Goat

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

Manuchehr Kills Tur, Manuscript from Shahnama

Young Woman Smoking a Huqqa

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

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

Thanka with Buddha

Maharana Sangram Singh Riding a Prize Stallion

Maharana Bhim Singh in Procession

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

Manjushri

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

Mt. Fuji through Pines

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

Ingelijste muurschildering voorstellende Xiwangmu en dienaressen

A Young Prince on Horseback

A Monumental Portrait of a Monkey

Amida Falls in the Far Reaches of the Kisokaido (Kisoji no oku Amidagataki), from the series "A Tour of Waterfalls in Various Provinces (Shokoku taki meguri)"

The Flood of Noah (Genesis 7:11-24)

Mandarin ducks and cotton rose hibiscus

Sunset over Autumn Mountains

Tathagata Buddha

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

Ivy Lane

Fishing in a Springtime Valley

Fan painting with river landscape

Collection of Poems (Divan)

Ōtsu-e of a Youth Holding Irises (Yarō)

Fragment van een muurschildering

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

A Stallion

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

Leaf from Album of Persian Calligraphy

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

Peonies

松下達摩図

Ruler Entertained by Dancers in a Paradise Garden

The Assembly of Tejaprabha Buddha

Dragon in foliage with lion and phoenix heads

The Bathers, Souvenir of the Banks of the Anio River at Tivoli

Portrait of the Great Master Yeongwoldang Eungjin

Gazing at a Waterfall

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.

Symbols of Longevity: Deer under Peach and Pine (Pine) (right)

Ema (Votive Painting) of a Chinese Lion and Peony Tree by Flowing Water

A young woman with pale skin and flushed cheeks stands in a landscape looking to our upper left in this round-topped vertical painting. Her body faces us in the center of the scene. Her fingers are interlaced at her waist, and her head tips slightly to our left. Honey-brown hair cascades over her shoulders, and her hazel eyes roll up under thin brows. She has a short nose and a small, pale pink mouth. A translucent scarf is tied around the full-length, pine-green mantle that drapes across her shoulders and wraps around the V-neck of her rose-red robe. A wine-red inset fills the neckline, and a matching belt is tied around her waist. She stands barefoot on the dirt ground, which is scattered with pebbles. Plants grow and bloom, including a blue iris, in shallow water along the bottom edge of the composition. A lidded pitcher with a narrow neck and scrolling handles sits on a flat rock next to her right knee. Taller, peanut-brown rock formations pile up beyond her under a powder-blue sky. Tawny-brown and sage-green trees, leafy plants, and shrubs sprout among the rocks. Beyond the woman is an open gate in a wooden fence built into one of the rock formations to our right, and sage-green hills dotted with moss-green trees roll out along the left side of the painting.

Mandala of the Three Shrines at Kumano

Vase of Flowers

Japan; Illustrated book; Illustrated Books

Buddhist Deities

Monkey Hanging on to a Branch

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

Four Motifs from the Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang

Umezawa Marsh in Sagami Province (Soshu Umezawa hidari), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)"

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.

Hunting Scene

Fishing by Torch in Kai Province (Koshu hiburi) from the series "One Thousand Pictures of the Ocean (Chie no umi)"

This illuminated title page from Walters manuscript W.581 gives the title of the work, as well as the authors' names. There is also a statement referring to the patronage of the manuscript, indicating that it was made for the Mawlawi (Mevlevi) Library (bi-rasm al-Khizanah al-Karimah al-"Aliyah al-Mawlawiyah).