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.