Файл:The Triumphal Entry of the Red Kings by Wisdom & Justive with the Expulsion of their Black Majesties (BM 1868,0808.4415).jpg

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
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