Black and white vignette studio portrait of William Bridgewater Page. Pencil inscription on verso, 'Wm. Bridgewater Page'. Printed inscription on verso, 'Photographed by L. D'Elboux Freemantle Southampton'. William Bridgewater Page (1790-1871) was a nurseryman at the Vineyard Nursery in Hammersmith, before starting his own nursery in Southampton, where in his later years he was a partner of W. Toogood. He also had a career as a garden designer.
He was the author of 'Page's Prodromus; As a General Nomenclature of All the Plants, Indigenous and Exotic, Cultivated by Him in the Southampton Botanic Gardens'
Extent
1 carte de visite
Physical description
10.5 (h) x 6.3 (w) cm. Portrait. Photographic print