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Left (b): standing Mughal; right (a): seated figure
Lovers
Old man leaning on staff
Man Filling a Wine Cup
The Cloth merchant
Rustam and warrior
Cup bearer with big turban
Dervish blowing horn
Shah 'Abbas and cup bearer
School scene
Two horsemen hunting with falcons
Composite of three figure sketches
Album page: a group of dervishes
Two Youths Embracing
Woman with a spray of flowers
Man holding cup and fruit
Old man with child
Hunchbacked man carrying pot
Folio from an album: recto: Pair of Lovers, left-hand half of a double-page
Folio from aShahnama(Book of kings) by Firdawsi (d.1020); verso: Bijan hunts boars; recto: text, Bijan proceeds to fight the boars
Two lovers and a bearded man
A woman carrying a large jar
Old man riding a zebu
Folio from a Shahnama (Book of kings) by Firdawsi (d.1020); Siyawush's ordeal by fire
A standing Woman
Seated woman and a youth
Hunt
Top: Head of a youth; Bottom: Old man drawn up cloth over his head
Page of calligraphy
Left (a):old man with spectacles; right (b): portrait of painter Shafi' al-'Abbasi
A Dervish dance
Old man with cane
Nomadic encampment
The Wolf Hunter
Singing bird
Cup bearer with wine jars
Man holding staff
Youth kneeling and holding out a wine-cup
Folio from an album; verso: Pair of lovers, right-hand half of a double-page
Reclining Nude
Old man and young boy
Folio from an album; recto: Young male, left-hand half of a double-page
An old man carries a bowl
Fox hunting cranes in landscape
Lamentation over the dead body of Christ
Nashmi the Archer
Haft Band (Seven strophes) by Mulla Hasan Kashi
A Bird Catches a Butterfly
A Monkey Riding A Lion
Folio from the Tarikh-i alam-aray-i Shah Ismail (The world adorning history of Shah Ismail); The Battle between Shah Ismail and Abul-khayr Khan
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