Initial I

Anonymous Germany Anonymous Italy (Venice) 1499

Illustration (recto and verso), folio from a Rasikapriya series

Playing Card: Two of Swords

Unidentified Artist

Paper Decoration: Dragon Amid Flowers and Clouds with Square Border

Playing Card: The Hunchback (Time) (Trump XI)

Unidentified Artist

Lovers with Pomegranate (painting, recto; calligraphy, verso), folio from an album, left-hand side of a bifolio

Mir `Ali Haravi

Playing Card: One of Swords

Unidentified Artist

Vasakasajja Nayika with Female Attendants

Todi Ragini (painting, recto), from a Ragamala (Garland of Melodies) Series

Young Woman Kneeling and Holding a Wine Cup

Manuchihr Enthroned (painting, recto; text, verso), folio from a manuscript of Hafiz-i Abru's Majma' al-Tawarikh (The Assembly of Histories)

Two Dervishes or Qalandars

Playing Card: The Star (Trump XXXVI)

Unidentified Artist

Printer's Mark of Claude Chevallon

Anonymous France (Paris) 1528

Tada no Mitsunaka, from the series Twenty-Four Generals for the Katsushika Circle (Katsushika nijūshishō)

Yashima Gakutei 八島岳亭

Playing Card: The Hanged Man (Trump XII)

Unidentified Artist

Initial P

Anonymous France (Lyons) 1599

The Return of Zal, Rustam and Gudarz (painting, recto); The Story of Luhrasp (text, verso), folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama of Firdawsi

Mu’in Musavvir

Grant Park

Charles Turzak

Playing Card: Charity (Trump XVIIII)

Unidentified Artist

Enthronement, folio from an album

Angel Sounding the Trumpet on the Day of the Last Judgement (painting, recto; text, verso), illustrated folio from a manuscript of a Turkish text

Warrior and Physician with the Plant Kestron (painting, recto; text, verso), folio from a manuscript of the De Materia Medica of Dioscorides

Illustrated manuscript of Khusraw and Shirin of Sheyhi

Recto: Prince Khurram and Companions Visit a Hindu Sage; verso: Poem 37 by Hafiz penned and signed by Mir `Imad al-Hasani

Playing Card: The House of the Devil (Trump XV)

Unidentified Artist

Initial E

Anonymous France (Lyons) 1599

The Dancer Anita Berber

Charlotte Berend-Corinth

Virgin and Child with Saints Mary Magdalene and Catherine of Alexandria and Angels

Pietro Orioli Giacomo Pacchiarotto

Souspente Paris

Georges Braque Robert J. Godet

Fortune Telling

Christian Friedrich Stölzel Antoine Pesne

Viva tu Vida en Loisaida

Martin Wong

Letter M

Anonymous Italy (Ferrara) 1497

Initial R

Anonymous France (Lyons) 1599

Illustrated Buddhist Text (in Khmer script): Scene of the Buddha Under Attack by the Forces of Mara

Chinese Princess Chu Lianxiang (So Renkō) with Butterflies, spring kyōka surimono for the Manji Group led by Shinratei Manzō 2nd)

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞

Equestrian Portrait of Sultan ‘Osman II (r. 1618-1622)

Ahmed Nakshi

Asavari Ragini (painting, recto; text, verso), from a Ragamala (Garland of Melodies) Series

Vilaval Ragini, illustration from a Ragamala (Garland of Melodies) Series

Postcard published by the Wiener Werkstätte (Flute Player and Bats)

Oskar Kokoschka Wiener Werkstätte

Charles I of England, and Henrietta Maria

William Baxter Closson Anthony van Dyck

Madonna and Child

Paul Adolphe Rajon Vittore Carpaccio

Two Boys and a Girl

Ferdinand Kobell

Ark of the Covenant Carried through the Red Sea by the Priests

Anonymous Germany (Augsburg) 1476

Playing Card: Air (Trump XXIII)

Unidentified Artist

The Angel and the Prodigal in Conversation, Illustration from Meder, Quadragesimale de filio prodigo. Furter, 1495 (?) or 1497 (?)

Anonymous Switzerland (Basle) 1499

Playing Card: The Trumpets (Trump XL)

Unidentified Artist

Playing Card: The World (Trump XXXVIIII)

Unidentified Artist

Letter C

Anonymous Italy (Ferrara) 1497

Letter I

Anonymous Italy (Ferrara) 1497

Initial C from Kerver's Alphabet

Anonymous France (Paris) 1528

Afrasiyab Consulting His Son Shida (painting, verso); Upon Hearing Rustam' s Arrival to Turkestan, Afrasiyab Goes to Engage him in a Battle (text, recto), illustrated folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama of Firdawsi

Figures in a Wooded Landscape

Unidentified Artist

A youthful warrior fights a dragon that has wrapped itself around his body

The Raising of Lazarus, folio from an Armenian Gospel

T'oros the Deacon

Lovers

Postcard published by the Wiener Werkstätte (Rider and Sailboat)

Oskar Kokoschka Wiener Werkstätte

Playing Card: Two of Batons

Unidentified Artist

Playing Card: Sagittarius (Trump XXVIIII)

Unidentified Artist

Initial S

Anonymous Italy (Venice) 1499 Anonymous Germany

Letter C

Anonymous Italy (Venice) 1599

Initial V

Anonymous France (Lyons) 1599

Saint Philip

Anonymous Germany (Augsburg) 1476

Playing Card: The Devil (Trump XIV)

Unidentified Artist

Traveler in a Palanquin/ Hakone, from the series Exhaustive Illustrations of the Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō (Tōkaidō gojūsantsugi ezukushi)

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

Gudarz Slays Piran (painting, recto; text, verso), folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama of Firdawsi

Sultan Mehmed II (r. 1451-81)

Communion of the Apostles, folio from an Armenian Gospel

T'oros the Deacon

Krishna and Radha Converse while Gopis Swim (painting, recto; text, verso), folio from a Satsaiya (Seven Hundred Verses) series

Two Boys and a Girl

Ferdinand Kobell

Blindman's Bluff

Ferdinand Kobell

Beheading of Saint John the Baptist

David Deuchar Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

Capital Letter XI

Anonymous Italy 1599

Zwingli

Carl Herman Pfeiffer Hans Asper

Playing Card: Aquarius (Trump XXXII)

Unidentified Artist

Playing Card: The Fool (Trump XCVII)

Unidentified Artist

Letter C

Anonymous Italy (Ferrara) 1497

Letter S

Anonymous Italy (Ferrara) 1497

Initial U

Anonymous France (Lyons) 1599

A Polo Scene, folio from a manuscript

Rustam Rescues Bizhan from the Pit, folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama

Mars "Oh My Love"

Andor Weininger

First Age of Cupid

Jacques Bouillard Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, called l'ainé

Adam and Eve Weeping over the Death of Abel (reverse: Jacob Mourning the Death of Joseph)

Anonymous Germany (Augsburg) 1476

Saint Hilarion brings a Child back to life

Anonymous Germany (Augsburg) 1476

Playing Card: Pope Three (Trump III)

Unidentified Artist

Playing Card: The Wheel of Fortune (Trump IX)

Unidentified Artist

Initial P

Anonymous France (Lyons) 1599

Initial L

Anonymous France (Lyons) 1599

Madhumadhavi Ragini (painting, recto; text, verso), from a Ragamala (Garland of Melodies) Series