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Portrait of a Ladakhi Mountain Goat

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

Leaf from Album of Persian Calligraphy

Prince and Princess Hunting Blackbuck

Portrait of Emperor Jahangir

Alexander the Great Enthroned at Persepolis

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.

An Old Sufi Laments His Lost Youth

A Stallion

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.

Collection of Poems (Divan)

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

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

A Monumental Portrait of a Monkey

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).

Angel (Peri) Riding a Composite Camel

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

"Dancing Dervishes", Folio from a Divan of Hafiz

This is the final illuminated page in the codex, Walters W.582. The last panel contains the colophon, written in Riqa' script, giving the name of the scribe as Habib Allah ibn Dust Muhammad al-Khwarizmi.

Carpet

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.

Dragon in foliage with lion and phoenix heads

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

Walters manuscript W.619 is an illuminated manuscript containing 2 works by Sa"di (died 691 AH/AD 1292): the Gulistan (Rose garden) and the Bustan (Orchard). It was copied in 980 AH/AD 1572 by Muhammad Riza al-Tabrizi in Iran. The text of the Gulistan appears in the main area, while that of the Bustan is inscribed obliquely around the main text area on three sides. Both texts are written in black and gold nasta"liq script. The margins are multi-colored, gold-sprinkled tinted or marbled paper. The original leather binding dates to the 10th century AH/AD 16th and has dentelle-style decorated boards and doublures with gold filigree work over a multi-colored ground of blue, green, red, and black.

Krishna Fluting

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

Silk Animal Carpet

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

A Virtuous Woman Placates the King by Plucking Out Her Eyes

Grapevine in the Wind

Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

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

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

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

A Messenger is Dispatched: Page from a Dispersed Manuscript

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

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

This folio from Walters manuscript W.580 is the left side of an illuminated double-page frontispiece of geometric design in gold, red, blue, and green, with a marginal rosette at the left.

Maharana Bhim Singh in Procession

Ruler Entertained by Dancers in a Paradise Garden

Peahen and hibiscus

Abhisarika Nayika (Heroine Running to Meet her Lover)

Tigers Chasing Deer, with Dragon

Durga Slaying Mahisha

Mandarin ducks and cotton rose hibiscus

Young Woman Smoking a Huqqa

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

Book on Navigation

A Disconsolate Lady on a Terrace with Attendants

Tile Panel

Excellent Ox, Tokyo National Museum, Japan

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

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

Summer Flowers

Maharana Sangram Singh Riding a Prize Stallion

Pichhwai for the Festival of Cows

Chrysanthemums by the Water

The Greedy Dog

A Young Prince on Horseback

Carpet with Triple-Arch Design

The top and bottom panels of this illuminated finispiece from Walters manuscript W.578 are inscribed with the basmalah and hamdalah in white Thuluth script. The Qur'anic verses in the central panel are written in Square Kufic.

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.

Ragini Gaudi, Page from a Jaipur Ragamala Set

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

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

Birds and Flowers

The Wade Cup with Animated Script

Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

Textile

Peonies

Japan; Illustrated book; Illustrated Books

Velvet and Silk Carpet

Birds and Flowers

Manuchehr Kills Tur, Manuscript from Shahnama

Center table

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

Phoenixes and Paulownia

Insects and Flowers, Ming dynasty, 14th-15th century, color on silk, Tokyo National Museum

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

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

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

Autumn Evening with Full Moon on Musashino Plain

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

Tánggǔ (堂鼓)

Birds and Flowers of the Four Seasons

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

Floral Tent Panel

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

Puppies

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

Mandala Base

Fox, from The Picture Book of Realistic Paintings of Hokusai (Hokusai shashin gafu)

Garden Gathering

Howling Wolf in a Deep Mountain Valley

Thanka with Buddha

Lakeside Retreat

Vase of Flowers with Grasshopper, Marine Life, and Garden Rock

Birds and Flowers

Carpet with Palm Trees, Ibexes, and Birds