KRISTEN FEILBERG (1839-1919)

Sumatra, Penang and Singapore, circa 1870

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KRISTEN FEILBERG (1839-1919)
Sumatra, Penang and Singapore, circa 1870
Album containing seventy-one albumen prints including two three-part panoramas, each 8 x 27 in. and two two-part panorama, each 8 x 22 in., ten approx. 5 x 6¾ in., one 14 x 11 in. and the remainder approx. 8 x 11 in. or the reverse, nineteen numbered and eighteen signed Feilberg in the negatives, the majority titled in German in ink and each numbered in pencil on mount, brown morocco (spine damaged and part disbound), four gilt-metal studs on back cover, oblong 4to.

Literature

Falconer, A Vision of the Past, A History of Early Photography in Singapore and Malaya, The photographs of G.R. Lambert & Co., 1880-1910.

Lot Essay

A rare album mainly documenting the Batak people and their villages around Sumatra, comprising photographs taken by Feilberg during his exploratory tour with Baron de Raet Cats to the Batak land in September and October 1870. It includes a panoramic view of Lake Toba, possibly the first photograph ever taken of this important lake.

Feilberg was a commercial photographer working in Penang and Singapore from the 1860s-1900s. In 1867 he exhibited fifteen views of Penang and Ceylon at the Paris International Exhibition.

A list of titles is available on request.

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