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Abhisarika Nayika (Heroine Running to Meet her Lover)

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

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

A Disconsolate Lady on a Terrace with Attendants

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

Krishna Fluting

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

Alexander the Great Enthroned at Persepolis

Ragini Gaudi, Page from a Jaipur Ragamala Set

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

A Messenger is Dispatched: Page from a Dispersed Manuscript

Folk Painting

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

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

"Dancing Dervishes", Folio from a Divan of Hafiz

Young Woman Smoking a Huqqa

Portrait of Emperor Jahangir

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

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

"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)

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

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

Angel (Peri) Riding a Composite Camel

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

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

Prince and Princess Hunting Blackbuck

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

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.

A Stallion

Durga Slaying Mahisha

Krishna with an Ascetic

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

Green Tara

An Old Sufi Laments His Lost Youth

Maharana Bhim Singh in Procession

A Virtuous Woman Placates the King by Plucking Out Her Eyes

Tile Panel

Ingelijste muurschildering voorstellende Xiwangmu en dienaressen

Ōtsu-e of a Youth Holding Irises (Yarō)

Collection of Poems (Divan)

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

Garden Gathering

Tathagata Buddha

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

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.

Ruler Entertained by Dancers in a Paradise Garden

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

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

Mandarin ducks and cotton rose hibiscus

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

Thangka with the Seventh Bodhisattva

Pichhwai for the Festival of Cows

Grapevine in the Wind

Canopy with Dragon among Flowers

Ivy Lane

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

Leaf from Album of Persian Calligraphy

A Young Prince on Horseback

Amitabha Triad, Tokyo National Museum

慈眼大師像

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.

Peahen and hibiscus

Manjushri

Buddhist Deities

Fragment van een muurschildering

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

Carpet

Portrait of a Ladakhi Mountain Goat

Palampore

The Greedy Dog

Paradise

Peonies

Carpet with Triple-Arch Design

Thanka with Buddha

Maharana Sangram Singh Riding a Prize Stallion

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

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

Silk Animal Carpet

Sixteenth Arhat, Cūḍapanthaka (from the Sixteen Arhats)

Manuscript Cover with Prajnaparamita Attended by Sadakshari Lokeshvara and a Tara

A Monumental Portrait of a Monkey

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

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.

Chrysanthemums by the Water

Camellia by Water

The Assembly of Tejaprabha Buddha

Youth Playing a Pipe for a Satyr

Vase of Flowers

Uma

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

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

Stela of Amenemhat and Hemet

Hell Courtesan

Pleasure Boat on the Sumida River

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.

Phoenixes and Paulownia

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.