3-101-319 - "Royal Academy of Arts, London"/Heritage Images

The Limes - Mortlake, 1872. People watching the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race on the River Thames. 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. From "London: a pilgrimage", with illustrations by Gustave Doré and text by Blanchard Jerrold, [London: Grant & Co., 1872] (p.52).