Frederick Fiebig
Frederick Fiebig was a photographer, best known for his photographs of India, Sri Lanka, Mauritius, and South Africa taken in the 1850s.[1]
History
There is very little information available about Frederick Fiebig. He was probably of German origin and became a lithographer in
Madras, Colombo and Kandy in Sri Lanka, Mauritius, and Cape Town in South Africa, meticulously cataloguing the monuments and people around him. The East India Company acquired roughly 500 of his photographs in 1856[1] which are now part of the Oriental and India Office collections at the British Library.[3]
Gallery
Photographs by Frederick Fiebig
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Gateway to the former Danish settlement of Serampore (also called Frederiksnagore by the Danes) on the Hoogly River north of Calcutta, 1851. -
A street inChandernagore, French India. Hand-coloured salt print, 1851 -
English: "Photograph ofMadras, India, taken in c.1851.". -
"St John's Cathedral, Calcutta," hand-coloured photographic print by Frederick Fiebig, dated 1851.
See also
Bibliography
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Frederick Fiebig.
- John Hannavy, Encyclopedia of nineteenth-century photography, New York : Routledge, 2008.
References
- ^ a b Library, British. "Palace of the Nawaub of the Carnatic, Madras". bl.uk/. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
- ^ Library, British. "Fiebig Collection: Views of Calcutta and surrounding districts". bl.uk/. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
- ^ Raman, A (21 March 2011). "Frederick Fiebig and Madras photos". The New Indian Express. Archived from the original on August 26, 2014. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
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