The Hermitage, Home of General Andrew JacksonDorris, Mary C. (Mary C. Currey)
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The Hermitage, Home of General Andrew Jackson
Dorris, Mary C. (Mary C. Currey)
Hermitage (Hermitage, Tenn.); Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845 -- Homes and haunts -- Tennessee -- Hermitage
1. Two carved chairs presented to Jackson by the Khedive of Egypt,
when Jackson was President.
2. Portrait of General Jackson presented by Mrs. Thomas M. Stegor.
3. Portrait of Mrs. Jackson in ball dress.
5. Pair Dresden vases used in the White House while Jackson was
President.
6. Bronze andirons, representing the Vestal Virgin.
7. Portrait of Andrew Jackson by Healy, the artist who was
commissioned by Louis Philippe to paint the portrait, only two
of which are in existence. The other one hangs in the Louvre,
Paris, painted eight days before Jackson’s death. See Healy
letter in Museum.
8. Opal vases presented by Andrew and Albert Marble Jackson.
9. Two liqueur bottles, presented by Lafayette to General Jackson.
10. One of a pair of brass lamps with crystal prisms used at the
Hermitage by the Jackson family. Purchased from the heirs of
Samuel Jackson Lawrence by the Ladies’ Hermitage Association.
11. Silver filigree basket.
12. Chair used in the White House during President Jackson’s
administration. Presented by Miss Laura Friesbee of
Washington, D. C.
13. Portrait of General Jackson by R. E. W. Earl, given by Mr. and
Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, Jr.
_Back Parlor_
All furnishings in this room are also originals (except lace curtains
and draperies). The chandelier, pier table, mahogany chair, two chairs
and tilt top table with mother-of-pearl inlay, mahogany card table, two
velvet chairs, Parian marble and French china vase on wall brackets,
pair of Empire urn-shaped “mirror vases” on the mantle of Tennessee
marble (duplicate of Italian marble one in front parlor), brass andirons
and fender, gold oval mirror, beaded mat and silver candlestick are all
pieces used at the Hermitage by the Jacksons.
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