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• Collection: Cartoon Prints, American

• Title: The celeste-al cabinet
• Related Names:
     Hoffay, A. A.
     Robinson, Henry R., d. 1850.
• Date Created/Published: N.Y. : Published by H.R. Robinson, 1836.
• Medium: 1 print : lithograph with watercolor on wove paper ; 33.3 x 48.1 cm. (image)
• Summary: A mild satire on Jackson and his Cabinet, portraying in imaginative terms a White House reception of popular French dancer and actress Madame Celeste. Seated in chairs in a White House parlor are six cabinet members. In the center Jackson sits behind a table, as "Door Keeper" Jimmy O'Neal (standing) presents Madame Celeste. The cabinet members are (left to right): Secretary of the Navy Mahlon Dickerson, Attorney General Benjamin F. Butler, Secretary of War Lewis Cass, Postmaster General Amos Kendall, Treasury Secretary Levi Woodbury, and Vice-President Martin Van Buren. Each figure's remarks are an amusing reflection of his own character or reputation. Dickerson: I never felt the inconvenience of being a bachelor untill now. what I have lost!! she as gracefull as a Seventy-four under full sail. Cass: This is a very strange introduction to the Cabinet when weighty matters are under discussion; but it does not become me to complain. Jimmy O'Neal: O' she'll bother them all by the powers faith, except my friend Kendal he has no soule for a pretty woman... Celeste: Mon General, if it is "glory enough" to serve under you "ma foi" vat is my grand satisfaction to see you wis de Grand Cabinet of dis Grand Nation here assamble. Jackson: Charming Creature. I've not lost all my penchant for pretty women .... Kendall: I wonder how the General could ever prefer the heels to the head. He never learnt that from me. But the least said the soonest mended. Woodbury: She has grace enough to dance all the surplus Revenue out of the Treasury Hasn't she, Mr. Attorney general? Butler: She is well enough, but I have conscientious scruples on these matters. Van Buren: Pooh pooh Butler, this is not the age for scruples of any kind. I like her rapid movements, her quick changes, her gracefull transitions. She is of my school ..." Weitenkampf's association of the cartoon with the Peggy Eaton affair of 1831, where several cabinet members resigned, is mistaken since the cabinet shown here consists of later appointees. The print appears from the style and monogram to be the work of lithographic draftsman Albert Hoffay.
• Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-1580 (b&w film copy neg.) LC-USZC4-1741 (color film copy transparency)
• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
  
• Call Number: PC/US - 1836.R661, no. 38 (B size) [P&P]
• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
• Notes:
  • Entered . . . 1836 by H.R. Robinson.
  • Published April 1836 by H.R. Robinson 48 Cortlandt St. N.Y.
  • Signed: A.H. (A.A. Hoffay?).
  • Title appears as it is written on the item.
  • Century, p. 40.
  • Weitenkampf, p. 40.
  • Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress)
  • Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1836-6.
• Subjects:
  • Butler, Benjamin F.--(Benjamin Franklin),--1795-1858.
  • Cass, Lewis,--1782-1866.
  • Celeste--Madame--(Ce'line),--1814-1882.
  • Dickerson, Mahlon,--1770-1853.
  • Eaton, Peggy,--1799?-1879.
  • Jackson, Andrew,--1767-1845.
  • Jackson, Andrew,--1767-1845.
  • Kendall, Amos,--1789-1869.
  • O'Neal, Jimmy.
  • Van Buren, Martin,--1782-1862.
  • Woodbury, Levi,--1789-1851.
  • Cabinet officers--1830-1840.
• Format:
  • Lithographs--1830-1840.
  • Political cartoons--1830-1840.
• Collections:
  • Cartoon Prints, American
• Part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress)
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• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
• Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-1580 (b&w film copy neg.) LC-USZC4-1741 (color film copy transparency)
• Call Number: PC/US - 1836.R661, no. 38 (B size) [P&P]
• Medium: 1 print : lithograph with watercolor on wove paper ; 33.3 x 48.1 cm. (image)

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• Call Number: PC/US - 1836.R661, no. 38 (B size) [P&P]
• Medium: 1 print : lithograph with watercolor on wove paper ; 33.3 x 48.1 cm. (image)

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