Chinês de frente, de perfil e de costas

Rio de Janeiro, 1865. Albumen 21 x 28 cm. [Picture from a series of physiological studies Stahl took on request from Louis Agassiz, who was traveling Brazil at the head of the Thayer expedition (named after its sponsor, a US philanthropist), whose principal objective of was the study of fish from the Amazonian and São Francisco basins. Agassiz published an account of the journey, co-scripted with his wife, Elizabeth Carey, which was illustrated with several lithographies reproducing photographs by Stahl (cf. A Journey in Brasil, by Prof. and Mrs. Louis Agassiz. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1868). / Illustration taken from Bla Corrêa do Lago, 'Augusto Stahl, obra completa em Pernambuco e Rio de Janeiro', Rio de Janeiro: Capivara, 2001