Thesiger Collection

Portrait of a peregrine falcon and saluki, belonging to Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party, resting in the sands near Al Ain. A peregrine falcon perches on a...

View of the wall of a large building in the city of Shibam. The building's windows are filled with carved wooden window screens and painted decorations cover the plaster walls.Due...

The ruins at Petra.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...

View of cultivated land in the Alamut valley ('Valley of the Assassins'), taken from the elevated site of the castle (now destroyed) at Alamut.Due to the nature of these images,...

View through the Siq gorge of the rock-cut façade of the Al-Khazna (Treasury) at Petra.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or...

View of the Shindagha district from the Bur Dubai side of Dubai Creek. In the foreground 'arish huts and enclosures made from palm fronds line Dubai Creek. On the far...

View of people at a souk (market) in Fez.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were...

View of a narrow street in Jaisalmer, with tall buildings at either side.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that...

Portrait of sheikhs at Abu Dhabi. In the centre is Shakhbut bin Sultan, the ruler of Abu Dhabi.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of...

Portrait of two Afar (Asaimara Danakil) warriors, standing, wearing knives across their waists from which hang leather tassels denoting how many men each has killed. The man on the left...

Portrait of the exiled Emperor Haile Selassie, standing, dressed in military uniform, talking with Wilfred Thesiger, also wearing uniform.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs...

View of the Shindagha district from Dubai Creek. In the right foreground four men stand on a small dhow (sailboat) moored in Dubai Creek. Further back a larger dhow and...

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 Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the Hamra sands near Liwa oasis.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that...

View of houses built along the sea-front at Abu Dhabi, with people on the beach in the foreground.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of...

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.

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party at a well in the plains below Hamrat ad Duru, during the party's journey from Masruq well to Al Hubi village. Members of Wilfred Thesiger's...

Landscape at Fughmah. A wadi with some water and vegetation. Mountains rising up on both sides.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear...

At Umm al Khashab. A boy sitting on a donkey. A donkey foal is following behind.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear...