Three-quarter length portrait of two ... Type:unstretched canvas

Three-quarter length portrait of two ... Type:unstretched canvasThree quarter length portrait of two local Bedouin men at a well between Jabal Sumeini and Sharjah. Two Bedouin men stand with their camels. A smiling man stands in the central foreground. He is wearing a thobe (long shirt) and a ghutra (headscarf). Behind him on the left another Bedouin man stands on one leg, holding a tangle of rope in his hand. He is wearing pants under his thobe, the lower portion of which is tucked into a ball at his waist.

standing in Al Khatam or Al Humrah sands south of Al Ain

A camel stands in the background

Another three men and a boy sit in front of the tent

Seated portrait of Sultan bin Ahmad

Behind them small tufts of vegetation grow in the sand

This is the first portrait Wilfred Thesiger took of Salim bin Kabina

Behind the shelters are a number of square

herds a group of loaded camels up a dune

In the foreground a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party stands in the party's camp

View of a square watchtower erected alongside farmers' fields in the region between the Tamniyah mountains and Al 'Abis village

View of five members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party riding across a gravel plain east of the Wadi Katabit/Wadi Andhur junction

In the far distance beyond the mountain Jabal Hafit (Jebel Hafeet) can be seen above the horizon