Seated portrait of a tribesman ... Type:art print

Seated portrait of a tribesman ... Type:art printSeated portrait of a tribesman of the Rashid Bedouin at Muhammad's encampment near Bir al Tawil in the Ramlat ar Rabbad. Wilfred Thesiger and his men stayed with Muhammad, a sheikh of the Rashid Bedouin, and his sons in the Ramlat ar Rabbad for a few days during their first crossing of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) in December 1946. The man, one of Muhammad's sons, kneels in the sand next to a cooking fire. He is making a gesturing motion with his

View of several men standing and sitting in front of a tent

beneath which a man is sitting

View of men gathered around several large bundles of giant reeds

In the far distance the steep cliff walls of Wadi Andur are visible

A group of Arab men and a few children gather in the foreground around a man sitting in the sand

In the far distance palms and salt bushes grow thickly along the bottom of a steep dune on the far left and scattered across the salt flat

In the distance beyond seven of the party's camels graze on vegetation scattered across the large dune that rises high in the background

In the far distance beyond vast rolling dunes spreads out below a far rocky mountain

sits on the left holding a coffee urn upside down

In the far distance shrubs grow on a steep sand dune

A rifle and some bags hang off branches of the tree

View of trees