Seated profile portrait of Musallim ... Type:unstretched canvas

Seated profile portrait of Musallim ... Type:unstretched canvasSeated profile portrait of Musallim bin Al Kamam, a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, during the party's journey from Al Ain to Liwa oasis (likely in the region of Al Humrah sands). Musallim bin Al Kamam, a sheikh of the Musaifar lineage of Rashid Bedouin, sits looking into the far left distance alongside a number of supply bags lying in the sand. He has a trimmed and pointed beard, and wears a patterned ghutra (headscarf) on his head and

stands in profile and looks into the far left distance

Further behind one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions walks towards a tall tree

View of exposed bedrock in Al Dhafra sands of the Rub' al Khali

Donkeys carrying heavy loads of wood move through the crowd

Portrait of sailors rowing a dhow on which Wilfred Thesiger sailed with Sheikh Hazaa bin Sultan Al Nahyan and his retainers

Salim bin Amr

Overhead the sky is empty of clouds

In the far background a vast expanse of rolling sands dotted with vegetation lead into the far distance

In the foreground two camels graze on a vast empty salt flat dotted with vegetation

which belongs to Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party

Behind him two other members of the party are seated in the sand on either side of a resting falcon

almost entirely bare of vegetation