Ceylon, Album of albumen prints of Ceylon, Burma and India, with an appended section of views of Weston-super-Mare (about 1880)

Mughal emperors Akbar, Jahangir and Shah Jahan with their ministers, by Bichitr (recto), foliate design in gold (verso), folio from the Minto Album. This allegorical group portra...

Portrait of Shāhnavāz Khān Ṣafavī (d. 1659) by Hāshim (recto), Persian calligraphy by Mīr `Alī (verso), folio from the Minto Album. Many of the Mughal emperors ordered full-leng...

Portrait of Mahābat Khān (d. 1634) (recto), Persian calligraphy by Mīr `Alī (verso), from the Late Shah Jahan Album. Zamāna Beg (d. 1634) was the son of a nobleman from Shiraz i...

Shah Jahan on a globe with his four sons, signed Balchand (recto), Persian calligraphy signed Mir `Ali (verso), folio from the Minto Album. In this allegorical family portrait, S...

Youth by a flowering tree, by Farrukh Beg (recto), Persian and Chaghatay Turkish calligraphy by Mir `Ali (verso), folio from the Minto Album. A young man stands by flowering tree...

Persian and Chaghatay Turkish calligraphy by Mir `Ali (recto), youth with swans and rabbits, by `Abd al-Karim (verso), folio from the Minto Album. A young man stands in a complex...

Young courtier, folio from the Salim Album. This painting shows a well-dressed young man leaning on a staff, and echoing the framing Persian verses: "the sapling stature of youth...

Kanphata yogi with his dog, folio from the Salim Album. This painting depicts a yogi sitting peacefully with his dog by a cave. The surrounding Persian text is a love poem, descr...