Group portrait of Wilfred Thesiger ... Type:unstretched canvas

Group portrait of Wilfred Thesiger ... Type:unstretched canvasGroup portrait of Wilfred Thesiger with the four members of his travelling party who accompanied him on his first crossing of the Rub' al Khali (Empty Quarter). Mabkhaut bin Arbain, a tribesman of the Bayt Gidad lineage of Bayt Kathir Bedouin, sits on the far left. Musallim bin Tafl, also of the Bayt Kathir Bedouin, sits second from the left. Wilfred Thesiger sits at the centre. Muhammad al Auf, a tribesman of the Bayt Mbarik lineage of Rashid

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party walking through a palm grove in Liwa oasis

Portrait of two boys near Abha

with flies covering his face and clothing

View of a group of women

resting in the Al Batin sands near Liwa oasis

a Sunday and therefore a day off for the Mission staff

Behind them trees and bushes grow in the sand

holds his hand above his face to block the sun

Scene at the Suq as Sabt [Saturday market] in the Bani Malik Mountains

some still small shoots

with a camel in the Wadi Al Ayn

likely in the region of Al Humrah sands