Barren Collection

Collared Lemming - adult in winter fur, feeds on buds and bark of dwarf willow sprouts and dry grass on snow surface. (Dicrostonyx torquatus)

Xlendi Bay - Gozo - Malta. This site is now very developed - the smallholding (centre) replaced by a large Hotel! Date: circa 1920s

Smokejacks Brickworks, Surrey
Smokejacks Brickworks in Ockley, Surrey shows part of the Upper Weald Clay Formation of Lower Cretaceous (Barremian) age

The desert town of Dhiban, south of Amman, Jordan
The desert town of Dhiban, Jordan, Known to the Moabites as Dibon, it is located in Madaba Governorate, south of Amman and east of the Dead Sea

The Lonely Road
A dark, pastel painting which shows a seated fox, alone in a barren landscape, with a long, winding road ahead of him. Date: circa 1920

Disparate 10
An etching from Goya's Los Disparates series of artworks (The Follies). This example shows a rearing horse, biting the garment of a flailing man in a barren landscape. Date: circa 1816-1823

Cartoon, Bread and Circuses, WW1
Cartoon, Bread and Circuses. The figure of Death kneels by his broken sword. He says he's done enough now, and would like some bread to eat. Date: 1916

Persian army in a desert - Polyaenuss discussion of Dariuss expedition against Saka of the Central Asia (VII.11.12): The treachery of the Sakian Sirakes, the guide

Barley, Hordeum vulgare, barren brome, Bromus sterilis, and Canary grass, Phalaris canariensis. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal

Cape Barren goose, Cereopsis novae hollandiae (New Holland cereopsis). Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by John Latham from his own A General History of Birds, Winchester, 1824

Curtis British Entomology Plate 509
Diptera: Scaeva unicolor = Scaeva pyrastri (Concolourous Hover-fly) [Plant: Potentilla sterilis (Fragaria sterilis, Barren Strawberry)] Date: 1824-39

Botany Bay and Sea Point - NSW, Sydney - Australia. On 29 April 1770, Botany Bay was the site of James Cooks first landing of HMS Endeavour on the land mass of Australia

Illustration, A Song of the English, Barren Landscape
Illustration to A Song of the English, a patriotic set of poems by Rudyard Kipling (first published in the English Illustrated Magazine)

British soldiers digging a trench, Western Front, WW1
British soldiers digging a communication trench through what was once Delville Wood on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Camelus sp. camel
A camel train walking across the deserts of Arabia

Valley of the Artisans. Temple of Hathor and Maat. Outside v
Valley of the Artisans. Ruins of Set Maats settlement, home to the artisans who worked on the tombs in the Valley of the Kings during the 18th to 20th dynasties

Valley of the Artisans. Ruins of Set Maat. Tombs in the necr
Valley of the Artisans. Ruins of Set Maats settlement, home to the artisans who worked on the tombs in the Valley of the Kings during the 18th to 20th dynasties

The Valley of the Queens. Egypt
The Valley of the Queens where wives of Pharaohs were buried in ancient times. Thebes. Egypt

Jesus and his disciples, going along the barren fig tree. Codex of Predis (1476). Royal Library. Turin. Italy

Joan of Arc / Chesnu Wood
JOAN OF ARC The edge of the Bois Chesnu at Domremy, where the French heroine saw visions Date: 1412? - 1431

Sparmannia discolor by Matilda Smith
Graphite on paper, 1880s by Matilda Smith (1854-1926). Held in the Library and Archives

Illustration, Satyridae -- Hipparchia Circe, Hipparchia Hermione, Hipparchia Briseis, Hipparchia Cordula, Erebia Medusa, Erebia Epiphron, Erebia Aethiops, Erebia Ligea, Melanargia Galathea

Cape Barren goose, Cereopsis novaehollandiae, and snowy sheathbill, Chionis albus.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croixs Dictionary of Natural Science: Ornithology

A researcher outside of a hut of hunters and fishermen on a Kara sea shore, in a blizzard. Such blizzards in Russian Arctic may go on for a week, and visibility is restricted to a few metres

Search for Collared (Dicrostonix torquatus) and Siberian Lemmings (Lemmus sibiricus L.) in Russian Arctic. near Kara sea. Russian Arctic, Siberia, Russia

Winter camouflage for a wildlife video-shoot for a Russian Wildlife reserve.. winter landscape in tundra of Taimyr peninsula, Kara sea shore, North of Siberia, Russian Arctic

Tamarix trees in a small valley. Arabian desert approx. 50 km from Hurghada town

Egypt - a road winds through rocks in Arabian desert. approx. 50 km from Hurghada town

Egypt - a Tamarix tree in a small valley in Arabian desert. approx. 50 km from Hurghada town

Egypt - a path cut through rocks as a mountain pass in Arabian desert. approx. 50 km from Hurghada town

Egypt - a typical view with sand and rocks in Arabian desert. approx. 50 km from Hurghada town

Egypt - A typical uninhabited oasis on a salt water spring in Arabian desert. approx. 50 km from Hurghada (Red Sea shore)

Egypt - typical scene in Arabian desert. appr. 50 km from Hurghada town

Russia - river Lena frozen. Siberia

Village Arba - in sand dunes of Central Karakum desert. March - Turkmenistan - former CIS

Russia - dunes of Tsuger-Als Sands: ancient alluvial sands along river Tes-Hem valley. Erzin settlement, South Tuva

WW1 - Men in uniform having a picnic - Mesoptamian Front?
Three men in uniform having a picnic in a barren landscape, watched by a dog - possibly on the Mesoptamian Front during WW1 Date: circa 1916

WW1 - Men in uniform with a car
WW1 - Men in uniform drinking beer at the side of a car in a barren / desert landscape, possibly on the Mesopotamian Front? Date: circa 1916

Six million year old fossiliferous rocks located in Emirate of Abu Dhabi

Precambrian Landscape
Artists impression of a Precambrian (4, 500 to 543 million years ago) landscape, when oxygen built up in the atmosphere (about 1)

Mud volcanoes, Baku
Mud volcano flow, Baku peninsula, Azerbaijan, 1992

River gorge, Pakistan
A dry river gorge in the Sulaiman Mountains, Pakistan

Track to Arabias interior
A track leading to Arabias interior, Emirate of Abu Dhabi

6 million year old fossiliferous sandstones

Arabian wadi
An Arabian wadi or gully in Emirate of Abu Dhabi

Arabian desert
The expansive salt flats of the Arabian desert, sabkha

Abu Dhabi desert
The expansive desert of Abu Dhabi, Emirate of Abu Dhabi

The Great Alachua Savanah in the province of East Florida
Pen and ink by William Bartram (1739-1823), 1775. Original artwork held in the Natural History Museum, London. 204 x 250 mm

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