Diplomat Collection (#61)

GOUVERNEUR MORRIS (1752-1816). American politician and diplomat. Line and stipple engraving, American, 19th century

SILAS DEANE (1737-1789). American lawyer and diplomat. Aquatint engraving, 1783

JOEL ROBERTS POINSETT (1779-1851). American legislator and diplomat. Line and stipple engraving, 1837

GEORGE MARSH (1801-1882). George Perkins Marsh. American lawyer, diplomat, and philologist. Line engraving, 1882

NIKOLAI IGNATIEV (1832-1908). Count Nikolai Pavlovich Ignatiev. Russian politician and diplomat. Wood engraving, American, 1877

Roger Earl Castlemaine 1
ROGER PALMER, earl of CASTLEMAINE Diplomat and writer, wearing a very fine wig. Date: 1634 - 1705

Georgi Chicherin
GEORGI VASILYEVICH Russian diplomat, arrested in London in October 1917 for enemy associations. Also negotiated the Treaty of Rapallo with Germany (1922). Date: 1872 - 1936

Enrico Cialdini
ENRICO CIALDINI, duca di Gaeta Italian military commander, statesman and diplomat. Date: 1811 - 1892

Pierre F J Bogne De Faye
PIERRE FRANCOIS JEAN BOGNE DE FAYE French statesman and diplomat. Date: 1576 - 1637

George Earl Macartney 3
GEORGE, first earl MACARTNEY Diplomat famous for his embassy to China Date: 1737 - 1806

George Earl Macartney 2
GEORGE, first earl MACARTNEY Diplomat famous for his embassy to China Date: 1737 - 1806

Antoine Brun
ANTOINE BRUN French diplomat and poet - the French have a tradition of combining the two professions... Date: 1600 - 1654

Odo Baron Ampthill
ODO RUSSELL, first baron AMPTHILL British diplomat. Date: 1829 - 1884

Colonel House, American special envoy to UK, WW1
Colonel Edward Mandell House (1858-1938), American diplomat, politician, and presidential advisor. He was special envoy to the UK during the First World War. Date: circa 1918

Marshal Philippe Petain, French army officer and diplomat
Marshal Philippe Petain (1856-1951), French army officer, seen here while serving as ambassador to Burgos, Spain, before the start of the Second World War. Date: 1939

Soviet Ambassador in London
The Soviet Ambassador in London, M. Zaroubin (hatless) and his wife, leave St. Margarets Church, Westminster, after the memorial service for the Czecho-Slovak Foreign Minister, Jan Mazaryk. 1947

Alexandru Marghiloman signing Peace Treaty, Romania
Alexandru Marghiloman (1854-1925), Romanian Prime Minister, signing a Peace Treaty (known as the Treaty of Bucharest) with Germany and Austria in the Cotroceni Palace, near Bucharest

Richard von Kuhlmann, German Foreign Secretary
Richard von Kuhlmann (1873-1948), German diplomat and industrialist. Seen here at his desk, probably at the time he served as German Foreign Secretary. Date: circa 1917-1918

President Wilson and others in Paris, France
The American President Thomas Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), seen here (centre) at the Peace Conference, Hotel Crillon, Paris, following the end of the First World War

Lord Herbert Kitchener, British Army officer
Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (1850-1916), British Field Marshal, diplomat, and statesman. Studio portrait by Bassano. circa 1900

Henry Carey Hunsdon
HENRY CAREY first baron HUNSDON soldier and diplomat Date: 1524 - 1596

Karl Schurz
KARL SCHURZ - German rebel who emigrateS to USA, becomes journalist, diplomat, general, statesman and author : in 1877 he is appointed minister for the interior. Date: 1829 - 1906

Emmanuel Arago
EMMANUEL ARAGO French statesman and diplomat Date: 1812 - 1896

Sir William Hamilton
SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON diplomat and antiquary, notably in Italy : widely known for his marriage to Emma, but a serious scholar in his own right Date: 1730 - 1803

Cardinal Du Bellay (Mono
Jean, cardinal DU BELLAY French prelate, archbishop, diplomat and writer, not necessarily in that order Date: 1492 - 1560

Cardinal Du Bellay
Jean, cardinal DU BELLAY French prelate, archbishop, diplomat and writer, not necessarily in that order Date: 1492 - 1560

Count Philipp Brunnow
COUNT PHILIPP BRUNNOW Russian diplomat, ambassador to London. Date: 1797 - 1875

Jacques Bongars
JACQUES BONGARS French scholar and diplomat. Date: 1554 - 1612

Sir Rutherford Alcock 2
SIR RUTHERFORD ALCOCK Diplomat, Britains first emissary to Japan, who as Envoy Plenipotentiary opened up trade wuth the merchants of that nation. Date: 1809 - 1897

Sir John Bowring - 3
SIR JOHN BOWRING Statesman, diplomat, writer : while Governor of Hong Kong. Date: 1792 - 1872

David Hartley, English diplomat
David Hartley the Younger (1731-1813), English diplomat, Member of Parliament, and son of the philosopher David Hartley (1705-1757)

Anatoly Blagonravov, Soviet engineer
Anatoly A. Blagonravov (right, 1895-1975), Soviet engineer, showing a colleague a spacecraft model. Blagonravov is making a report at a congress of the American Rocket Society, in the USA, in 1959

Herbert of Cherbury, English philosopher
Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury (1583-1648), English diplomat, poet and philosopher. Herbert was born at Wroxeter in Shropshire, eastern England

Thomas Bodley, English diplomat
Sir Thomas Bodley (1545-1613), English diplomat and scholar. Bodley was born at Exeter into a Protestant family. During the catholic reign of Mary the family moved to Germany

Sir William Temple, English statesman
Sir William Temple (1628-99), English statesman and essayist. Temple was born in London and educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge

Geoffrey Chaucer, English author and poet
Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343-1400), English author and poet. Chaucer was born in London, but little is known of his early life

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706-1790). American printer, publisher, scientist, inventor, statesman and diplomat. Pastel on paper, 1783, by Joseph Siffred Duplessis after his painting of 1778

ALFRED PERCIVAL MAUDSLAY (1850-1931). English diplomat, explorer and archaeologist. Working at the Mayan ruins at Chichen Itza, Mexico, 1889

FRANKLIN AT VERSAILLES. Benjamin Franklins first audience before King Louis XVI of France at the palace of Versailles, 20 March 1778. Chromolithograph, American, c1903

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Benjamin Harrisons inaugural ball, 1889. Hand colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration by Thulstrup

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John Jay. Hand-colored engraving of a portrait

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King Kalakaua of the Sandwich Islands visits US President Grant, 1874. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

White House reception, 1850s
Reception at the White House by President James Buchanan, 1850s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Benjamin Franklin negotiating a French alliance with Louis XVI, American Revolution Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

President Hayes receiving the first Chinese ambassador to the US
First Chinese ambassador to the US met by President Rutherford Hayes, 1878. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

First US diplomatic mission to Japan, 1856
Townsend Harris, first American diplomat in Japan, escorted into Shimoda, 1856. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Xerxes I, the great king of ancient Persia, on his throne. Hand-colored woodcut reproduction

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