Three-quarter length standing portrait of ... Type:stretched canvas

Three-quarter length standing portrait of ... Type:stretched canvasThree quarter length standing portrait of Captain Haji Mansur on his dhow (sailboat) in the Persian Gulf near Bahrain Island. Haji Mansur, the nakhoda or captain of the dhow on which Wilfred Thesiger travelled from Dubai to Bahrain Island, stands next to a wooden rail at the bow of the ship. He is wearing a T shirt, a wraparound skirt and has a taqiyah cap on his head. Behind him a sail is rigged to the bow yard. In the distance another dhow crosses

The latter can be seen in the foreground of the picture

An Arab man with a thick dark beard sits on a pale coloured camel

On the shore behind it a large

Group portrait of Wilfred Thesiger (centre) and members of his travelling party: Muhammad bin Kalut

In the far distance beyond Jebel Hafeet (Jabal Hafit) rises high above the flat plain in the far right distance

light-coloured camel

Behind the courtyard sits a square building

He is carrying a camel stick in his left hand

Landscape showing a dry riverbed bordered by steep canyon walls in a tributary of the Wadi 'Aydim near Mudayy

The groves grow in a depression along the edge of a sand flat

Behind the men the background is bare and flat

View of a house at Pashagar