Landscape with watchtower Type:stretched canvas

Landscape with watchtower Type:stretched canvasView of a gravel plain at Raidat al Saar, with a watch tower in the distance. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by the Pitt Rivers Museum.

In the far distance sand dunes stretch out across the horizon below a hazy sky

sits with his body facing forward and his eyes half-closed

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the Dhafara sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

Carter 42nd

carries a dead MacQueen's Bustard (houbara) by its legs

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the desert of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

The water surrounding them is clear and calm

both seated on the ground

In the distance behind him wind towers top the roofs of nearby houses

with a man standing on a rock outcrop in the foreground

A crowd of spectators is sitting on a roof and standing in a doorway behind them

with crops piled up on the ground in the foreground