Engraving presenting a game of Water Polo on the barrels in the river Nene at Oundle of Northampton shire, England in 1890. (Retrieved from “The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News” dated September to December 1890. "The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News" was an English weekly magazine founded in 1874 and published in London).
Source: The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News” September to December 1890