Thesiger Collection

View of buildings and the landscape surrounding the city of Jeddah or At Taif. In the foreground car tracks criss-cross a vast sandy plain. In the background large multi-storey buildings...

Portrait of two Bayt Kathir Bedouin boys kneeling on the ground in Wadi Arbat. Two boys kneel side by side on the ground. Musallim bin Anauf, the fifteen year old...

Half-length seated portrait of one of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's retainers in Al Ain. The man is seated with a rifle under his right arm. He wears a...

Group portrait of three young Arab boys in the Wadi Yiba. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred...

View from the northern slopes of the Jabal Qara mountains out towards the Rub' al Khali (Empty Quarter). In the foreground an expanse of gravel sits atop a mountain top....

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting in camp in the Wadi Qa'ah.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that...

View of a group of men and boys standing on the beach in the town of Ash Shihr. In the centre of the group a man and a boy are...

Half length portrait of two young Bedouin men, part of a camel caravan resting outside the city gates of Al Mukalla.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce...

Portrait of Salim bin Kabina, a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, sitting in camp in the Wadi Hawshi. Salim bin Kabina is holding a large camel...

View of a sand flat between dunes in Al Batin sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali). In the foreground a dry bush pushes out of the sand in...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party travelling in Al Khatam sands south of Al Ain, on their journey towards Al Humrah sands. In the foreground a dry bush pokes out of...

View of desert landscape in the 'Uruq ash Shaybah in the Rub' al Khali (Empty Quarter).Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear...

Portrait of Musallim bin Tafl, a tribesman of the Bayt Kathir Bedouin and one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions, standing next to a cluster of saf palms [Nannorhops arabica]. This...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party travelling in the region of Kidan plains (Suhul al Kidan) or Al Batin sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali). Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions...

Seated portrait of three Manasir Bedouin men at their encampment in the Baynunah sands. Two Manasir men and a teenaged boy sit in a row front of tall vegetation. Each...

Seated profile portrait of Alaiwa bin Lutaiya, a guide in Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, taken during the party's journey from Ramlat al Ghirbaniyat to Furai well. Alaiwa bin Lutaiya, a...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party taking a rest in the Al Batin sands during their journey across the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) from Al Dhafra sands to Liwa...

Portrait of a boy of the Mahra Bedouin in the Wadi al Jiz' near its junction with Wadi Mahrat.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting in camp in Al Humrah sands during their journey to Umm az Zumul. In the foreground footsteps and camel tracks criss-cross the wind-rippled...

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party crossing a dune in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) during the party's journey from Jaladah plain to Bani Ma'arid sands....