Title: Album Leaf with Calligraphic Exercise (siyah mashq)
Object type: Album leaf, non-illustrated
Date: dated 1258 AH/1842–3 CE
Artist:  Asadullah Shirazi 
Artist bio: Iranian (active 1830s–50s)
Artist nationality: Iranian
Artist role: Calligrapher
Medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
Dimensions: H. 18 7/8 in. (48 cm)
W. 13 in. (33 cm)
Classification: Codices
Credit line: Purchase, Friends of Islamic Art Gifts, 2016
Geography: Made in    Iran      
Department: Islamic Art
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Calligraphy