This fragment is from the famous Hamzanama, the monumental series of approximately 1,400 large-scale cloth paintings made for Emperor Akbar between about 1560 and 1575 that illustrated the legendary exploits of Amir Hamza, the uncle of the Prophet Muhammad (for summaries of the various theories on the dating of the Hamzanama see Leach 1986, p.39, n.9; Stronge 2002, p.177, n.35; Losty in Beach, Fischer and Goswamy 2011, vol.I, pp.72-73). The scale of this project was unprecedented in Indian art, both in terms of the size of the illustrations (each page measures approximately 70 by 55cm, even without the now mostly lost borders) and in terms of sheer number of illustrations.