Black and white full-length standing portrait of Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward. Pencil inscription on verso, 'N.B. Ward Esq. F.R.S'. Ink inscription on verso, 'V 8b'. Printed inscription on verso, 'Maull & Polyblank. Photographers. 55, Gracechurch Street, and 187a, Piccadilly, London.' . Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward (1791-1868) was an English doctor. He had an interest in in botany and entomology, and was the inventor of the Wardian case, for growing and transporting plants.