Mrs. Rachel Jackson. Late Consort to Andrew Jackson, President of the U. States

Rachel Donelson Robards (1767-1828) married Andrew Jackson in 1791 or 1794. The ambiguity in dates depends on which marriage you count. When they first married, the couple had assumed Rachel's first husband had secured a divorce. Turns out he had not, so this was technically bigamy. A few years later when this was discovered, the legalities were secured and the couple was legally married.

This double marriage was raised as a moral issue by Jackson's opponents in the contentious presidential campaign of 1828 and Rachel Jackson was painted as a morally loose woman. Andrew Jackson blamed his wife's failing health on anxiety caused by gossip and in fact she died before Jackson was inaugurated. Rachel Jackson was thus never actually first lady of the United States.

The engraving and aquatint of Mrs. Rachel Jackson was probably published immediately following her death. Mrs. Jackson is depicted as the model of respectable modesty with all the accoutrements of feminine virtue: a book, a bonnet, and a fan.