2-699-276 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Rich's Glory', (1881). 'Rich's Glory or his Triumphant Entry into Covent-Garden', c1732. A satire on director and theatre manager John Rich's new Theatre Royal in Covent Garden, Westminster, London, which opened in 1732. Poet and dramatist John Gay is carried into the theatre on a porter's back, (right). Rich, dressed as Harlequin, drives a carriage pulled by satyrs. In the distance is St Paul's Church, designed by Inigo Jones. From Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places. Westminster and the Western Suburbs, by Edward Walford, Vol. III. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York, 1881]