2-791-310 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Boat Race, 1844. University teams rowing in Oxford. '...a recent boat race on the Isis, with a view of the famed "city of spires", from a sketch by Mr. Whittock. It is altogether a very animated spectacle, as well as a scene of great picturesque beauty. Not the least attractive of "the Commemoration" proceedings has hitherto been the procession of the University boats, and the cutters of all the colleges, which had taken part in the University boat races, in the order in which they had gained prizes; and thus they rowed from Iffley to Oxford. This striking river spectacle was to have been enacted on Tuesday, but was deferred in consequence of the heavy rain; and was again postponed on Wednesday from a similar cause'. From "Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol I.