Full length standing portrait of ... Frame:gold

Full length standing portrait of ... Frame:goldFull length standing portrait of a boy and donkey in front of a house wall in Sharjah. A teenage boy stands to the left of his donkey in front of a high house wall. The boy is wearing a shirt and wraparound skirt, and holds a cane in one hand. The donkey's saddle is covered with a thick sheepskin blanket. Behind them the wall is decorated with carved plaster embellishments and plants grow in the courtyard behind. In the far background a barjeel (wind

in front of a date palm plantation

A hooded peregrine falcon perches on a mangalah (cuff) on his near hand and he holds a camel stick in his other hand

He is surrounded by sand

He wears a light coloured thobe (long shirt) with a square patterned ghutra (headscarf) tied around his head

View of a dhow (sailboat) and a rowboat moored in Dubai Creek at sunset

in a state of disrepair

each holding a rifle

with snow-covered mountains in the distance

A large white minaret stands at the edge of the buildings in the central distance

Behind him a crowd of people stand with donkeys carrying wood

Locals walk through a spot of scattered sunlight inside a covered market aisle

during which time Wilfred Thesiger stayed with Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan in Al Ain and joined him on a number of hunting excursions