A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c20.s1.108

c20.s1.108

The largest known Indo-Persian pictures on paper are the two illustrations of the *Story of Amīr Hamzah* in the British Museum (Or. 3600; *ante*, p. 454), which each measure 2 feet 8 inches by 2 feet 2 inches. It seems absurd to describe such works as 'miniatures', the term not being applicable to them in any sense. It is almost equally inappropriate when applied to Colonel Hanna's elaborate picture representing a cavalry review by Shahjahān, which measures 23 by 17½ inches, or the picture, nearly as large, which depicts the audience scene when Jahāngīr received the Persian embassy, while he caressed a tiger on each side of the throne.¹