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| Keywords: The celeste-al cabinet trimmed.jpg ;TITLE The celeste-al cabinet ;CALL NUMBER PC/US - 1836 R661 no 38 B size P P ;REPRODUCTION NUMBER LC-USZC4-1741 color film copy transparency LC-USZ62-1580 b w film copy neg ;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 ;MEDIUM 1 print lithograph with watercolor on wove paper ; 33 3 x 48 1 cm image ;CREATED/PUBLISHED 1836 ;RELATED NAMES Hoffay A A Robinson Henry R d 1850 ;NOTES Title appears as it is written on the item Signed A H A A Hoffay Published April 1836 by H R Robinson 48 Courtland St N Y Entered 1836 by H R Robinson Weitenkampf p 40 Century p 40 Published in American political prints 1766-1876 / Bernard F Reilly Boston G K Hall 1991 entry 1836-6 ;FORMAT Political cartoons Lithographs ;REPOSITORY Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington D C 20540 USA ;DIGITAL ID digital file from b w film copy neg cph 3g01741 http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/cph 3g01741 ;CARD app1994000011/PP PD-old LOC-image cph 3g01741 See also 100px Image The celeste-al cabinet jpg 50px Image Benjamin Franklin Butler 1795 “1858 jpg Caricatures of Andrew Jackson 1836 in the United States 1836 engravings 1836 cartoons Sitting men Dancing women in art Caricatures of Benjamin Butler | ||||
