
3 0 c m
40cm
actual image size: 32cm x 21cm
Description
View of high rolling dunes in Al Batin sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali). Small bushes grown on the right and the left of low dunes in the foreground. Sparse bushes grown on the next row of dunes behind, and in the far distance, more dunes with deeply ridged face rise into the horizon.
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
2004.130.17749.1
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
March 1-5, 1948
© Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford