Frederick Fiebig

He should not be confused with his contemporary and German compatriot, the Letton born post impressionist and expressionist painter Frédéric Fiebig.

[2] With the advent of photography, Fiebig began producing hand-coloured prints of photographs captured using the calotype process.

His photographs of Calcutta are some of the earliest views of the city.

He later travelled to 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.