Full length portrait of a ... Jacques-Philippe Potteau

Full length portrait of a ... Jacques-Philippe PotteauFull length portrait of a man and a young boy standing with a camel in Al Ain oasis. At the far left a young boy holding a camel stick stands next to a man holding holding the head rope of a thoroughbred Batina camel (centre right). The man wears a waistcoat and a cartridge belt over his thobe (long shirt), and a ghutra (headscarf). The camel stands in profile, facing towards the left. It is saddled with an Omani style wooden saddle. In the background

In the near distance a large square stone building sit atop a rock outcrop in the middle of a valley

View of a group of farmers using a team of donkeys to thresh hay on a farm outside the city of Tarim

On the right a second rowboat sits beside a beached dhow with a cloth covered deck canopy

View of the fields surrounding Abha from a city rooftop

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a fourth sailor stands at the side of the boat

Beyond the salt flat a high dune massif with deeply ridged slopes rises along the horizon

The men sit beside a rock strewn hillside

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party standing with a camel during the party's journey from Khawr bin 'Atarit well in the Ghanim Sands to the Ramlat al Ghafah

View of Bin Maaruf nomads (of the Saar tribe) watering their camels at Manwakh well

standing with two of his retainers

In the far distance at the left a salt flat (sabkha) lies below a high dune massif rising along the horizon