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 Company in 1856 and his work represents some of the earliest photographs of India in the British Library's collection.

A German-born Calcutta lithographer who took up photography in the late 1840s, Fiebig's views of Calcutta are the earliest extensive photographic documentation of the capital of British India. Produced from paper negatives, his prints were offered for sale in either monochrome or (as here) hand-coloured form.

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