Wooded Landscape with Lake and Mountains (from the Cropsey Album)

Just as Frederic Church and Albert Bierstadt had homes built on the banks of the Hudson River when they reached the height of their careers, Jasper F. Cropsey had a mansion erected...

Wooded Mountain Landscape with Waterfall and Travellers is a magnificent fantasy landscape in the Flemish tradition, painted in the first half of the 17th century by the Antwerp pa...

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...

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...

Persian calligraphy (recto), equestrian portrait of Akbar (verso), folio from the Late Shah Jahan Album. This portrait of the Mughal emperor Akbar was commissioned during the rei...

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...

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...