Seated portrait of Muhammad, a ... Type:stretched canvas

Seated portrait of Muhammad, a ... Type:stretched canvasSeated portrait of Muhammad, a sheikh of the Rashid Bedouin, at his encampment in the Ramlat ar Rabbad sands near Bir al Tawil. Muhammad, an elderly man with a long white beard,is sitting in the sand next to a pile of fibres and a camel saddle. Wilfred Thesiger and his men stayed with Muhammad and his extended family in the Ramlat ar Rabbad sands for a few days during their first crossing of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) in December 1946. Due to

fill the landscape to the far horizon

View of buildings and the landscape surrounding the city of Jeddah or At Taif

Portrait of two children

In the foreground a large bush grows on the left in a flat sandy area at the top of a dune

heading behind a large dune on the right

kneeling on the ground

Dhows are on the water

Their quarry

sits in the sand holding onto the wakir with one hand

wearing a cloth hat

A long low dune rises behind the men

In the background the flat plain