The Pinkish Camelia Type:unstretched canvas

The Pinkish Camelia Type:unstretched canvasThe Pinkish Camelia by by Sue Johnson 2011. Photographic reproduction by Malcolm Osman of an original work in gouache, watercolour and pencil on paper.

In the foreground two Bayt Gidad women stand with their herd of goats beside the family's cave

possibly one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin guides

View of three members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party at a well in the Wadi 'Andam

one of Wilfred Thesiger's Hejaz guides

and leans on two camel sticks

In the foreground small secondary dunes and footprints mark the surface of steeply sloping sand dune

Side view of two sambuks (sailboats) beached in shallow water beached at Al Ma'ala harbour in the city of Aden

In the right background beyond a ridge of low dunes borders the flat in the far distance

In the distance beyond the party's camels are couched in the sand

The falaj is covered with stones

On the far left a Bedouin man (likely Muhammad bin Al Jabari

Standing full length portrait of a woman and child of the Bin Maaruf lineage of Sa'ar Bedouin at Manwakh well