This engraving published in about 1731 is a detailed satire on the fame and financial success of the actor-manager John Rich (1692-1761).

The son of the lawyer and Drury Lane patentee Christopher Rich' John Rich and his brother inherited the Davenant patent on their father's death in November 1714. Christopher Rich had started renovating the old Lincoln’s Inn Fields Theatre in 1713, but died six weeks before the new company opened there in 1714. John Rich took the reins and from 1716 began to mount dance compositions featuring characters from the Commedia dell'Arte, in competition with similar pieces being produced at Drury Lane Theatre. He starred in them under the stage name Lun playing a comic, dancing, mute Harlequin. The success of Rich's pantomimes with Commedia characters including Columbine, Scaramouche and Puncinello explains their presence at the top of the central arch. Other images include Fortune showering gold into a hat held by Rich dressed as Harlequin, for the sake of Folly, who sits beside her holding a cat-call or rattle; Rich preferring the company of squat Momus, or satire, to the lute-playing god Apollo, and a lady burning the plays of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and Dryden, by the figure of Ignorance .

The images in roundels are explained in a key on the engraving, which features a mock coat of arms at the lower edge, including Harlequin's crossed bats, his cap and mask, on the base, a mock coat-of-arms of Harlequin supported by an ape and a fox with a motto translated as 'Craft is my Lot'.