3 0 c m
40cm
actual image size: 32cm x 21cm
Description
View of a desert plain covered in salt-bushes in the Al Batin sands south of Liwa oasis. The vast flat plain is fringed by sand dunes, with the highest dunes towards the right side of the image. In the central foreground is a large bush without foliage.
Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by the Pitt Rivers Museum.
Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by the Pitt Rivers Museum.
Image Details
Accession Number
2004.130.6599.1
Format
Film Negative 35mm
Country
United Arab Emirates
Region
Empty Quarter [Rub‘ al Khali]; Abu Dhabi Emirate; Al Gharbia Region; Al Batin [Al Baţīn]
Photographer
Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
Date
December 16-25, 1946
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