Seated group portrait of seven ... Type:unstretched canvas

Seated group portrait of seven ... Type:unstretched canvasSeated group portrait of seven men, retainers of Sheikh Shakhbut bin Sultan Al Nahyan, kneeling on the ground outside Qasr Al Hosn fort. The seven retainers kneel in a line on the ground in front of several disused cannons lying in the sand behind them. Most of the men hold rifles, while the man at the centre holds a camel stick. In the far background are a number of 'arish huts and stone buildings. When this picture was taken Qasr Al Hosn fort was

cruciform in shape

View from behind of a young man standing in the prow of Wilfred Thesiger's tarada (sheikh's canoe)

In the distance behind the falconer tufts of qassis (sedge) and other vegetation grow on a sand flat below a sky streaked with sparse clouds

wind-rippled sand leads into rolling downs dotted with bushes and other small vegetation

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through sand dunes in the vicinity of the Ramlat Unayq

seated with bronzes laid out in foreground

A hooded peregrine falcon perches on a mangalah (cuff) on his near hand and he holds a camel stick in his other hand

View of four people in a tarada (sheikh's canoe)

Wilfred Thesiger stands at the centre (third from left) holding a camel stick

An old man with a curly grey beard sits with a striped blanket hanging over one of his shoulders

a type of dhow) raising the mainsail by pulling on ropes

The Potala