The Art of Mimicry George Dixon Aked

The Art of Mimicry George Dixon AkedThe Art of Mimicry by Sue Johnson 2011. Photographic reproduction by Malcolm Osman of an original work in gouache, watercolour and pencil on paper.

A rowboat and a small dhow (sailboat) are moored in Dubai Creek alongside some 'arish and coral buildings

View of dhows (sailboats) on Dubai Creek

follows along at the back of the group

View of a group of men at a circumcision celebration firing muskets above their heads

she is wearing beaded necklaces and metal jewellery

Wilfred Thesiger wears a cartridge belt on leather suspenders over his white thobe (shirt) and a plain headscarf topped with an 'agal (head rope)

At the centre right Mahalhal bin 'Ati

rides at the front of a group of five camel riders

with men walking with laden horses in the foreground

In the foreground a well topped with a wooden frame sits in the midst of a bare and parched field

Behind him a vast sand flat dotted with small tufts of vegetation stretches without interruption into the far horizon

In the foreground Salim bin Ghabaisha (right) rides his camel across the top of a sand ridge behind a baggage camel