Portrait of animals in Sheikh ... Type:art print

Portrait of animals in Sheikh ... Type:art print

preparing to load the gear onto the camels

In the background a person walks through a doorway

Portrait of Muhammad al Auf and another member of Wilfred Thesiger's party sitting side by side on a gravel plain during the party's journey between Yisub well and Wadi Darbat

This is a white

In the foreground three of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions rest in the shade of a tall ghaf tree [Prosopis cineraria]

below a vast cloudless sky

At the centre two young men wear waistcoats over their long shirts (thobe)

In the far distance a settlement of 'arish huts sits high up the slope of a dune in the far centre distance

A number of camels and men wait in the background behind the well

Two hold bows and blunted arrows with which they can shoot small birds that are then stuffed and worn hanging from the back of the neck

weight 170 pounds

The rock floor beneath the sand is exposed in the depression beneath the dune