Standing full length portrait of ... Thesiger Collection

Standing full length portrait of ... Thesiger CollectionStanding full length portrait of an Arab man, one of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's falconers, holding a peregrine falcon (shahin) in the sands near Al Ain. A falconer in a light coloured thobe (long shirt) topped with a khanjar (dagger) on a leather belt holds a peregrine falcon on a mangalah (cuff) on one arm. The falcon wears a leather burqa (hood) decorated with a strip of leather. In the far distance beyond small shrubs and bushes grow on a

The young boy kneeling in front of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan may be Sheikh Tahnoun bin Mohammed Al Nahyan

He is near the top of the mast

In the foreground a small boat and a large

a 92-gun vessel of the Royal Navy

Each man wears a cartridge belt over his thobe (shirt) and a headscarf

In his right hand he holds a large curved dagger

In the foreground a saddled camel walks along the crest of a low dune in rolling sands

He wears a plain ghutra (headscarf) and a dark thobe (shirt)

View of tall houses behind the city wall at Shibam in the Hadhramaut

in his lap

Portrait of a Japanese man named Fukuzawa Yukichi

with a man standing