Summer Palace rooftops Portraits of notable people

Summer Palace rooftops Portraits of notable peopleMythical figures on the ends of roof gables at the Summer Palace in Beijing. 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.

A two storey barjeel (wind tower) atop its roof

View of dead trees on the shore of Lake Nakuru

A Wahiba boy at a well

The falcon is looking towards the near foreground

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party crossing the Uruq al Shaiba

View of a city square in the city of Jeddah or At Taif

with a camel prominent in the foreground

View of a stream flowing down the side of the Yarkhun valley

Some of the houses of the village are erected on the tops of others in consequence of the heaping sands

preparing a meal

at a dance after a circumcision ceremony

At the bow of the ship one man perches on the boom behind the sail