A traditional ‘Whitebait Supper’ at Blackwall on the River Thames, London. These suppers were held at Blackwall or Greenwich and were popular with government Cabinet Minsters. The whitebait were caught in the Thames from April to September. One of a series of comic cartoons of various aspects of English manners, society and customs from “Manners and Customs of Ye Englyshe - Mr Pips hys Diary” drawn by Richard Doyle. Published by Bradbury & Evans, London, 1849. Event Engraving Crowd Whitebait Supper at Blackwall, by the River Thames, London