Photograph of St. Mary’s Church in Fort St George, Madras, Tamil Nadu, taken by Frederick Fiebig in c.1851. St Mary’s Church is the oldest surviving Anglican church in the East. Built by Sir Streynsham Master, Governor of Madras between 1678-81, ...
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A hand-coloured print of Dakshineshwar temple, from the Fiebig Collection: Views of Calcutta and Surrounding Districts, taken by Frederick Fiebig in 1851.
The Dakshineshwar temple located along the Hooghly River in Calcutta was built by Rani Rashmoni in 185...
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Digital Rare Book:
Fort St. George, Madras - A short history of our first possession in India
By Mrs. Frank Penny
With pen and ink sketches by the author, and other illustrations.
Published by Swan Sonnenschein in London - 1900
A hand-coloured print of the Hindu College, Calcutta, from the Fiebig Collection: Views of Calcutta and Surrounding Districts, taken by Frederick Fiebig in c.1851-52. This is a general view of the classical main façade of the Hindu College. The college was founded in 1817 and the foundation commi...
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Monument to Lord Cornwallis in Fort St George, Madras - 1851
Photograph of the monument to Lord Cornwallis in Fort St George, at Madras, taken by Frederick Fiebig in c.1851. Charles, Earl Cornwallis (1738-1805) was the third Governor-General of India and held office between 1786 and 1793. He r...
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Uncoloured lithograph of the Government House in Calcutta by Frederick Fiebig dated c.1847. When Marquis Wellesley became Governor-General of Calcutta in 1798, he decided that the existing Government House was not a suitable building for his position and n...
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Photograph of St. Mary’s Church in Fort St George, Madras, Tamil Nadu, taken by Frederick Fiebig in c.1851. St Mary’s Church is the oldest surviving Anglican church in the East. Built by Sir Streynsham Master, Governor of Madras between 1678-81...
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A hand-coloured print of the Hindu College, Calcutta, from the Fiebig Collection: Views of Calcutta and Surrounding Districts, taken by Frederick Fiebig in c.1851-52. This is a general view of the classical main façade of the Hindu College. The college was founde...
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The Dakshineshwar temple, Ballygunge, Calcutta - 1851
A hand-coloured print of Dakshineshwar temple, from the Fiebig Collection: Views of Calcutta and Surrounding Districts, taken by Frederick Fiebig in 1851.
The Dakshineshwar temple located along the Hooghly River in Calcutta was built by Rani...
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A hand-coloured print of Dakshineshwar temple, from the Fiebig Collection: Views of Calcutta and Surrounding Districts, taken by Frederick Fiebig in 1851.
The Dakshineshwar temple located along the Hooghly River in Calcutta was built by Rani Rashmo...
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A hand-coloured print of the Court House, Calcutta, from the Fiebig Collection: Views of Calcutta and Surrounding Districts, taken by Frederick Fiebig in 1851. The Supreme Court House on Esplanade Row was opened in 1782 and Sir William Jones, the great scholar and or...
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Digital Rare Book :
Organic and Functional Nervous Diseases - Illustrated with 300 engravings in the text.
By M. Allen Starr M.D.
Publshed by Lee & Fiebiger, Philadelhia - 1909https://dailydigesthub.com">CLICK NOW!
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Panorama of Calcutta showing the grounds of the Calcutta Cricket Club - 1847
Uncoloured lithograph of a panorama of Calcutta drawn after nature by Frederick Fiebig and prepared, printed and published by T. Black of the Asiatic Lithographic Press in Calcutta in 1847. The second section shows th...
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Photograph of the Parthasarathi Temple, at Madras (Chennai), Tamil Nadu, taken by Frederick Fiebig in c.1851. The photograph is one of a series of hand-coloured salt prints by Fiebig. The temple is one of two large temple complexes in Madras and is situated ...
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Grain bazaar on the Chitpore Road, Calcutta, ca. 1850.
Photograph by Frederick Fiebig
The photograph is one of a series of hand-coloured salt paper prints of Fiebig. Some 500 of Fiebig's prints of Calcutta, Madras, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Mauritius and Cape Town were purchased by the East India C...
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A hand-coloured print of Princep's Ghat, Calcutta, from the Fiebig Collection: Views of Calcutta and Surrounding Districts, taken by Frederick Fiebig in 1851. James Princep (1799-1840) was a scholar and scientist who decoded early Indian scripts and translated ...
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A hand-coloured print of the Auckland's Hotel, Calcutta, from the Fiebig Collection: Views of Calcutta and Surrounding Districts, taken by Frederick Fiebig in 1851. This is a view looking north along Old Court House Street towards the Auckland Hotel (later the ...
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A hand-coloured print of Dakshineshwar temple, from the Fiebig Collection: Views of Calcutta and Surrounding Districts, taken by Frederick Fiebig in 1851.
The Dakshineshwar temple located along the Hooghly River in Calcutta was built by Rani ...
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Little is known of Fiebig’s career beyond his work as a topographical artist and lithographer in Calcutta in the 1840s. In the late 1840s he took up photography and this early hand-coloured print is one of over 500 views of India and Ceylon taken by ...
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