Scenery at the Botanical Gardens, Calcutta. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
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Inscription: Signed in the negative 'F. Fiebig.' Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View in the Botanical Gardens, with an open-sided, thatched planting house at the right.
Scenery at the botanical gardens, Calcutta. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
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Inscription: Signed in the negative 'F. Fiebig' (signature cropped). Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View in the Botanical Gardens, with Indian figures grouped in front of a tree in the foreground.
The great banian tree at the botanical garden, Calcutta. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
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Genre: Landscape Photography Panoramic view composed of two prints, looking towards the great banian tree, with a group of Indian figures posed in the foreground.
General [sic, for Colonel] Kyd's Monument in the Botanical Garden, Calcutta. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
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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...
Superintendent's residence in the Botanical Gardens, Calcutta. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
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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.
Botanical Garden, Madras. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
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Genre: Architectural Photography View of a thatched bungalow in the botanical gardens, with workers posed in the foreground in the act of tending plants.