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.
15. Sewing box inlaid with mother-of-pearl belonged to Mrs. Andrew Jackson; Mrs. Jackson presented it to Mrs. Emily Donelson; Mrs. Donelson gave it to Mrs. Wilcox (her daughter); Mrs. Wilcox gave it to Mrs. Andrew Price; through Mr. and Mrs. Richard Plater it was presented to the Ladies’ Hermitage Association. 16. Portrait of General Coffee. 17. Portrait of General Bronaugh. 18. Portrait of Colonel Gadsden. 19. Portrait of Lieutenant Eastland. (These four constituted the Staff Officers generally called “General Jackson’s military family.”) 20. Clock, one of the oldest relics, in the Hermitage before the death of Mrs. Rachel Jackson. The hands are set at the hour Jackson died. 22. Jackson piano presented by Colonel Andrew Jackson, grandson of Andrew Jackson. 23. Music book belonging to Mrs. Emily Donelson, First Lady of the White House. Presented by Mrs. Bettie M. Donelson. 24. Two gilt wall brackets bought by Andrew Jackson, Jr. 25. Flower jar presented by Andrew Jackson, IV, and Albert Marble Jackson (on wall bracket). Duplicate in front parlor. 26. Mirror willed to the Association by Mrs. Alice Watkins Shields of Knoxville in 1934, originally at the Hermitage. 27. Nut bowls, and compote (on pier table). 28. Guitar of Mrs. Jackson, loaned by the Rev. Walton Lawrence Smith, a descendant. 29. Mahogany center table. The only piece remaining of the set presented to General and Mrs. Jackson when on a visit to New Orleans after the battle. The gold spectacles on the table were worn by Mrs. Jackson and the volume of Robert Burns’ poems is inscribed, “Rachel Jackson from her beloved husband, Andrew Jackson.” 30. Mahogany sofa bought by Mrs. Hoffstetter at the sale of the adopted son’s effects in 1866. Presented to the Association in 1897 by Miss Bettie Hoffstetter of Nashville. 31. Pair of silver lustre vases sent to General Jackson from the Czar of Russia.