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221. Photo 247/3(29)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 247/3(29)
Title:
The Hooghly near Princep's Ghaut, Calcutta. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the Hugli, with sailing ships moored along the riverbank and an unidentified building in the left background.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1851-1852
Extent:
1 item

222. Photo 247/4(23)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 247/4(23)
Title:
Mission school and church near Hooghly. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across the lawn towards the school, with the church on the right.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1851-1852
Extent:
1 item

223. Photo 247/1(43)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 247/1(43)
Title:
Burning of the dead on the banks of the Hooghly (near Barrackpore). Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed in the negative 'F. Fiebig' (signature cropped). Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the riverbank towards a small group seated beside a funeral pyre.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1851-1852
Extent:
1 item

224. Photo 247/3(15)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 247/3(15)
Title:
Refreshment pavilion in the garden of Eden [sic for Eden Gardens!], Calcutta. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking towards the single storey thatched refreshment rooms in the Eden Gardens.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1851-1852
Extent:
1 item

225. Photo 247/3(16)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 247/3(16)
Title:
General [sic, for Colonel] Kyd's Monument in the Botanical Garden, Calcutta. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking along the pathway towards the domed memorial pavilion, with two Indian figures posed in the foreground. Robert Kyd (1746-1793) was the founder of the Calcutta Botanical Gardens. The memorial was erected in 1795 on a site selected by his successor, W...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1851-1852
Extent:
1 item

226. Photo 247/3(50)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 247/3(50)
Title:
Interior of a native gentleman's dwelling, Chandernagore [incorrectly captioned for: Imambura at Chinsura]. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View from courtyard, looking along the façade of the imambara at Chinsura. For another photograph of the same building, see Photo 247/1(29).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1851-1852
Extent:
1 item

227. Photo 247/1(52)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 247/1(52)
Title:
Ghaut and temples on the banks of the Hooghly [Calcutta]. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View from the steps of the ghat seen in prints 36 and 51, looking back towards a row of temple shrines, with the ionic columns of the ghat in the foreground. This is possibly the Dakshineshvara Temple, completed in 1855.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 item

228. Photo 247/1(20)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 247/1(20)
Title:
The fever hospital with bamboo scaffolding (when building), Calcutta. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed in the negative 'F. Fiebig.' Genre: Architectural Photography View of the porticoed façade of the Fever or General Medical Hospital on College Street, nearing completion, but still swathed in scaffolding. The hospital was opened in 1852.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1851-1852
Extent:
1 item

229. Photo 247/3(18)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 247/3(18)
Title:
Wharf of the O.P.S.N. Comp., Calcutta. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking towards the wharf area occupied by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, with piles of coal in the foreground. The wharf itself is obscured by buildings in the foreground.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1851-1852
Extent:
1 item

230. Photo 247/3(34)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 247/3(34)
Title:
Superintendent's residence in the Botanical Gardens, Calcutta. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
Scope & Content:
View looking across the lawn towards the three-storey house, with a curved frontage overlooking the river, originally occupied by the botanist William Roxburgh, who was appointed Superintendent of the Botanical Gardens in 1793.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1851-1852
Extent:
1 item