The Huqqa Smoker, India, probably Delhi, ca. 1800 Color enhanced drawing on paper depicting a man sitting on a terrace under a colorful sky, smoking the huqqa, his back resting on a cushion. Mounted on an album page with a green border. On the back, Indian folio probably 17th century from a manuscript of the Shahnameh of Ferdausi inscribed in Persian nasta'liq in black ink of sixteen lines of text separated by golden saz leaves and divided into two columns separated by a floral band illuminated in gold and polychrome. Borders decorated with golden flowers on orange paper and gold powdered buff margin. Total size : 24,7 x 18 cm ; drawing : 21 x 14,4 cm ; folio : 15 x 6,4 cm Page of album cut, stains, accidents in the margin at the back. A Painting with a Hookah Smoker, India, probably Delhi, circa 1800