Watercolor with Eastern scenery, 1874
 

Interestingly opinion experts, on occasion, places drawn on watercolor. It Arabia or Central Asia? What a mysterious construction, in the foreground. Perhaps some sort of a expedition.
Size watercolor: 15 x 25.
Signed: Al. Stahl. 1874.

Nothing comes to mind is not.
What a fantastic building and a large, but even in such a place ...

Perhaps this is Dr. Agustín Stahl puertorikansky famous scientist, engaged in scientific issledovaniyami in the field of botany, arheologii, ethnology, medicine, zoology.
Here is some information about it:
http://botany.si.edu/Antilles/PRFlora/stahl/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agustín_Stahl
has participated in many expeditions, wrote watercolors.

Very interesting. Explicitly expedition, even keep something like a folder or tablets. The construction is similar to the ancient furnace or melting or burning. I think the Geographical Society will answer soon, maybe they too can be on site to ask. Oval suggests that drew marcher, may be in the ranks - are "ovals" were made for "road" portraits, they open like a book (that was with a lid). For simple elegance of these sketches are not needed. He vrisoval in the oval, because it was something important.

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Please read it he is, and he wrote, watercolors, very much, they are known in the scientific world, have been fully published.

K-Maler I read something and think that he gave links to all forum participants and for Raskatova as a confirmation.
rolls, interesting to know the history of origin, watercolors, if possible.

As the author watercolors - Puerto Rican, "climbed" a lot of sites on the architecture of ancient and not very structures south and central America. It is very difficult just from the descriptions without photographs to compare the descriptions of those structures with the image of the figure, the more that Hispanic culture has played a role in the subsequent development of architecture and art of the conquered peoples. For descriptions of this structure somewhat similar to Indian and bath, and storage, and craft workshops ... The houses there were built without windows, the entrance to the east, so that the smell in the house was not very .... So there really can not do without expert (architect, archeologist) who will not blindly, as I guess the options, and that really familiar with this kind of structures. At that time, researchers and archaeologists in their expeditions were limited to sketches, for lack of cameras.

In other words, the drawing was the only way to preserve what they had seen the image or phenomena as a result, the training pattern has been given more time and money, there were an order of magnitude above what is lacking in the current "installers."
There was even praise: "He's a good drawer" ...

You have expressed exactly my thoughts!:)