Images courtesy of

• Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
• Smithsonian Institution
  • National Air and Space Museum
  • National Postal Museum
  • Freer Gallery of Art

At Freer Gallery of Art:
Jitsukawa Enjaki in the Role of Dansichi #25
Natori Shunsen (Japanese, 1886-1960)
Japan, 1926
Woodblock print: ink and color on paper; 38.1 x 25.9 cm
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.:
Robert O. Muller Collection, S2003.8.1552.

Alexander in battle with the Zangis
From a Khamsa of Nizami
Iran, mid-16th century
Opaque watercolor, ink and gold on paper; 31.1 x 19.1 cm
Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.: Gift of
Charles Lang Freer, F1908.279a.

Head and bust of a man
Egypt
Limestone; 58.1 x 45.7 x 27.4 cm
Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.: Gift of
Charles Lang Freer, F1907.3.

Nine lines of Eastern Kufic script
Folio from a Koran
Iran, 11th-12th century
Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper; 41.3 x 29.8 cm
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.: The
Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection, S1997.95.

Standing figure of a Guanyin
China, 17th-18th century
Ivory, carved with traces of gilding, ink and lacquer; 45.7 x 13.0 cm
Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.: Purchase,
F1957.25.