A European gentleman's private residence near the Hooghly (Garden Reach), Calcutta. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view looking across garden towards the two-storeyed house and the Hugli beyond, with domestic servants, including a bhisti, posed in the foreground.
Servant in a native gentleman's garden, Calcutta. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking across the garden, with a group of servants seated on a charpoy in the foreground. Part of a building, possibly a temple, can be seen in the background, but it is largely obscured by a tree.
Garden pavilion on the Hooghly [Calcutta]. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking along the side of abuilding towards the River Hugli, with an open-sided pavilion or summerhouse, supported on ionic columns, in the walled garden to the right.
Lord Auckland's Monument, Calcutta. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View of Lord Auckland's monument (by Henry Weekes, 1847) in the Eden Gardens, with Babu Ghat beyond and the masts of shipping in the Hugli visible on the skyline.
Native garden, Calcutta. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
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View looking across an enclosed area planted out with vegetables, towards huts and a more substantial single storey stuccoed building. With an Indian man 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...
Residence of the Superintendent of the P.O.S.N. Comp., Calcutta. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across the garden, towards the substantial classical mansion occupied by the superintendent of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company in Calcutta.
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.