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Young Woman Smoking a Huqqa

Portrait of Emperor Jahangir

"Dancing Dervishes", Folio from a Divan of Hafiz

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

"Black Buck", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

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.

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

A Messenger is Dispatched: Page from a Dispersed Manuscript

Alexander the Great Enthroned at Persepolis

A Stallion

An Old Sufi Laments His Lost Youth

A Virtuous Woman Placates the King by Plucking Out Her Eyes

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

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

Ruler Entertained by Dancers in a Paradise Garden

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

Prince and Princess Hunting Blackbuck

Portrait of a Ladakhi Mountain Goat

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

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

A Disconsolate Lady on a Terrace with Attendants

Maharana Bhim Singh in Procession

Angel (Peri) Riding a Composite Camel

Leaf from Album of Persian Calligraphy

Maharana Sangram Singh Riding a Prize Stallion

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

Collection of Poems (Divan)

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

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.

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

Tile Panel

Abhisarika Nayika (Heroine Running to Meet her Lover)

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

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

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

Silk Animal Carpet

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

Garden Gathering

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

Tigers Chasing Deer, with Dragon

Carpet

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

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

Krishna Fluting

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.

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

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

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.

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

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).

Silk Kashan Carpet

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.

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

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

Durga Slaying Mahisha

Ragini Gaudi, Page from a Jaipur Ragamala Set

Summer Flowers

Peahen and hibiscus

Birds and Flowers

A Young Prince on Horseback

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

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

Palampore

Carpet with Scrolling Vines and Blossoms

Buddhist Deities

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.

Velvet and Silk Carpet

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

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

Book on Navigation

Folk Painting

The Greedy Dog

Textile Fragment

Carpet with Triple-Arch Design

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

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

Flowers and Goldfish

Pichhwai for the Festival of Cows

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)

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

Thanka with Buddha

Peonies

Carpet with Palm Trees, Ibexes, and Birds

Monkeys in a Cherry Tree

Ingelijste muurschildering voorstellende Xiwangmu en dienaressen

Camellia by Water

Hours of Queen Isabella the Catholic, Queen of Spain

Leaf from Book of Hours

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)

Bridal Robe (Hwarot)

Grafmonument met alliantiewapen en vier kwartierwapens

Dragon in foliage with lion and phoenix heads

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.

Hunting and fishing scenes

The Emperor's Carpet

Floral Tent Panel

Five Medallion Carpet

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

Manuchehr Kills Tur, Manuscript from Shahnama