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The Triumphal Entry of the Red Kings by Wisdom & Justive with the Expulsion of their Black Majesties   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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The Triumphal Entry of the Red Kings by Wisdom & Justive with the Expulsion of their Black Majesties
Description
English: A satire on the quarrel between the four patentees of Covent Garden Theatre : William Powell, George Colman the elder, Thomas Harris and John Rutherford. A group of people is shown in front of the theatre and a play-bill fixed to a column of the building provides a numbered key to their identities: (1) Powell, the King of Hearts, crowned and wearing a heart on his coat and (2) Colman, the King of Diamonds, also crowned and wearing a diamond on his coat stand at the entrance to the theatre; (3) Mary Ann Yates, the Queen of Hearts with a smaller crown and a heart on her sleeve; (4) the figures of Comedy and (5) Tragedy stands between the two men; (6) Wisdom is to the right of Powell and gestures towards the joined hands of the two men; beside Wisdom is (7) Justice who uses her sword to drive away (8) Harris, the King of Clubs, who wears a crown decorated with ass’s ears and has a club on his coat, he reaches out towards (9) Jane Lessingham who has a club on her sleeve and a bird on her shoulder ; holds a mask(?) in one hand and with the other fondles one of Harris’s ass’s ears; a string from Harris’s nose is attached to her goat like leg which is lettered “LUST”; to the right stands (10), Rutherford, the King of Spades, who has a spade on his coat and wears a crown surmounted by a fool’s cap and bells; a string from his nose is held by Harris, Rutherford also has a pen stuck behind one ear and holds a bauble or bladder on a stick; in partial shadow to the right foreground stand (11) the actors Henry Woodward, and (12) George Ann Bellamy who leads Woodward by a string from his nose; near her foot is an open book lettered “Fascinated; by Pharoah / Foot”; (13) Charles Macklin lies on the ground in the foreground to left, he has the head of a hog with serpents spitting from between the horns, beneath his arm is (14) a “crab-stick” and a large wig; a boy squats beside him defecating on to two letters, one ”from T. H[a]rr[i]s to G C[o]L[ma]N”, the other “ to G C[O]L[ma] N From W.K[e]NR[ic]K”, and holds a paper lettered “The Widow’d Wife”; (15) Fame hovers in the theatre entrance holding a wreath over the heads of Powell and Colman; (16) a baby resting on Mrs Lessingham’s shoulder is identified as Mischief. 1768
Etching
Depicted people Representation of: William Powell
Date circa 1768
date QS:P571,+1768-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 200 millimetres (trimmed?)
Width: 320 millimetres (trimmed?)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.4415
Notes

In 1767 the four men, shown as kings in this satire, had combined to buy the theatre and patent from the heirs of John Rich. They agreed that Colman, with Powell’s support, should be the manager but that Harris and Rutherford would have a veto over Colman’s decisions. The quarrel arose when Harris and Rutherford wanted Mrs Lessingham engaged to play Imogen in place of Mrs Yates. Having been physically excluded from the theatre by Colman and Powell, Harris and Rutherford forced an entry and took control. Colman then applied to a Justice of the Peace for Westminster who ordered the reinstatement of Mr Serjeant (the representative of Colman and Powell) and ordered that the representatives of Harris and Rutherford be turned out. The playwright William Kenrick had quarrelled with Colman. The satire was announced in the Public Advertiser 9 August 1768.

According to the OED a crab-stick is "A stick or cudgel of the wood of the crab-tree".
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-4415
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