Thesiger Collection

Group portrait of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan (second from left), standing with some of his retainers, holding rifles.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any...

Group portrait of Wilfred Thesiger (centre) and members of his travelling party: Mabkhaut bin Arbain, Musallim bin Tafl, Muhammad al Auf and Salim bin Kabina.Due to the nature of these...

Portrait of Ras Tafari, the Regent of Abyssinia (and later the Emperor Haile Selassie), standing, dressed in ceremonial robes and wearing a crown.Due to the nature of these images, prints...

Portrait of Wilfred Thesiger (left) with Colonel Gigantes, Commander of the Greek Sacred Squadron of the Special Air Service (S.A.S.), in the Western Desert.Due to the nature of these images,...

Portrait of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, standing, holding a saker falcon on his left arm.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age,...

Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, photographed at Buraymi.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were...

Portrait of Salim bin Ghabaisha, one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions, sitting on a rock, holding a rifle across his lap.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce...

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party (Salim bin Kabina) walking with two tethered camels in the Batin sands south of Liwa oasis.Due to the nature of these...

Portrait of Wilfred Thesiger, standing, holding a rifle over his shoulder, with the camel (named Ghazala) which he rode during his second crossing of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali).Due...

Portrait of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan with a saker falcon.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they...

Portrait of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, crouching, taken in 1949.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred...

View of a large dune in the Dhafara sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali), with Salim bin Kabina carrying fodder for his camel in the foreground.Due to the...

Sheikh Zayed with a falcon at Buraimi, 1949.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived...

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.

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.