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This studio photograph shows a Peranakan Chinese bride in Batavia in her wedding dress and an elaborate headress with fringe. This photograph was probably taken by Woodbury & Page, as it resembles another image of the same bride in the collection of the KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies in Leiden.Woodbury & Page was a photography studio set up in 1857 by British photographers Walter Bentley Woodbury and James Page in Batavia.Studios were already established across the Strait Settlements and the Dutch East Indies by the 1840s and became increasingly prevalent in the 1850s. During the 1920s, Chinese-owned studios dominated the studio photography trade in Southeast Asia.

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