View of a row of ... Type:unstretched canvas

View of a row of ... Type:unstretched canvasView of a row of houses overlooking a large square in the city of Abha. A row of two storey buildings made of stone sit overlooking a large square, in which a few traders and buyers are gathered. All of the buildings are topped with adobe and parallel lines of raqf (slate) tiles to prevent weather erosion. In the background a line of low hills rises in the distance. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or

In the background

Exterior view of the mudhif (guest house) belonging to Zair Hashim Bidin of the Al Hasan tribe

a samurai and officer (performing the function of censor) on the 1864 Ikeda mission to France

View of two men standing in a boat loaded with a cargo of reed mats

An Arab guide in Wilfred Thesiger's party stands in the midst of a vast rocky plant left of a large tree

while on the left large dhows (sailboats) sit on the beach and in the shallow water of Sharjah Creek

on the right

A flag files from a flagpole atop the tower

View of an ornamented plaster-faced house

the Regent of Abyssinia (and later the Emperor Haile Selassie)

holding her hands clasped

In the foreground people with some goats