The celeste-al cabinet – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: The celeste-al cabinet, preserved in this antique lithograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The celeste-al cabinet
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The title of this 1836 lithograph puns on the name of Madame Céline Celeste, the French-born dancer, turning "celestial" into a joke about Andrew Jackson's cabinet. The print, published in New York by H.R. Robinson, names several cabinet officials, including Martin Van Buren, Lewis Cass and Levi Woodbury, along with Peggy Eaton, whose social standing had divided Washington in the early 1830s. That dispute, known as the Petticoat Affair, helped force a major cabinet reshuffle, and the hand-applied watercolor makes this a sharply pointed satire on officials who seemed more absorbed in gossip and entertainment than in governing.
| Created / published | N.Y. : Published by H.R. Robinson, 1836. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph with watercolor on wove paper ; 33.3 x 48.1 cm. (image) |
| Genre | Lithographs 1830-1840.Political cartoons 1830-1840. |
| 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. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,145 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-109556 |
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