Views of Society - Dinner Down the River - stock illustration

Men enjoying their lunch at a riverside club or restaurant, whilst watching the activity on the river, which is probably the River Thames just outside London. No doubt there is some drunkenness, some sleepiness and some bad jokes taking place. From “Bird’s-Eye Views of Modern Society in Sixteen Plates taken by Richard Doyle; Reprinted from the Cornhill Magazine.” Dated c1864 with wood engravings by the Dalziel Brothers and published in London.