The painting is very similar to one in the Keir collection which also shows Prince Selim hunting. This belongs to a group, all apparently from the same manuscript, which could be called Selim's Shikarnameh - a record of the Emperor Jahangir's hunting achievements when he was a prince - and which are comparable to two manuscripts commissioned for Selim between 1600 and 1604. The Tuzuk-i Jahangir, Jahangir's memoirs, mentions a record kept of all the animals he killed from his eleventh birthday onwards and would support the existence of a 'Shikarnameh'.

Robinson, B.W. (Ed.): Islamic Art in the Keir Collection, London 1988, pl.18, pp.43-45