A book illustration depicting figures at The Limes, Mortlake, watching the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race, from 'London: a Pilgrimage' by Blanchard Jerrold and Gustave Doré, 1872.
Jerrold describes how 'the towing paths presented to the view of the more fortunate people upon the private river-side terraces, a mixed population ...'.
The Limes, at 123 Mortlake High Street, is a grade 2* listed building, built around 1720. The lime trees after which the house in named feature in two paintings by JMW Turner, painted in 1826 and1827.
