Diplomacy Collection (page 3)

Louis XV, King of France and the Ambassador of Netherlands, (19th century). Louis XV (1710-1774) was the great grandson of Louis XIV, the Sun King. He ruled from 1714 until his death

Earl Granville, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1882. Artist: Lock & Whitfield
Earl Granville, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1882. Granville George Leveson-Gower (1815-1891), 2nd Earl Granville held various ministerial posts in Liberal governments of the mid to late

Letter from Henry John Temple to RB Hoppner, 18th June 1832. Artist: Lord Palmerston
Letter from Henry John Temple to RB Hoppner, 18th June 1832. Letter written from the Foreign Office by Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, to RB Hoppner

William Pitt Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst, Governor-General of India, 19th century. Artist: WJ Edwards
William Pitt Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst, Governor-General of India, 19th century. Amherst (1773-1857) was sent as Ambassador to China in 1816, but as he refused to perform the ceremony of kow-tow

The signing ceremony of the Belgrade Declaration, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 2 July 1955. The signing of the Declaration by Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito (1892-1980)

Arrival of the Soviet delegation in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 26 May 1955. Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito (1892-1980) (saluting) stands alongside Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971)

The Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 1902. Artist: Yrondy
The Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 1902. The alliance was agreed in 1902 and was to run for five years and be renewable. It was intended to counter the presumed menace posed to each power by Russia

The ambassadors of Abyssinia visiting the Elysee Palace, 1898. Artist: F Meaulle
The ambassadors of Abyssinia visiting the Elysee Palace, 1898. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 24th July 1898

Count Mouravieff, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, 1897. Artist: Henri Meyer
Count Muraviev, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1897. Mikhail Nikolayevich Muraviev (1845-1900) served as Foreign Minister from 1897-1900

Arrival of General Tchertkoff (Chertkov), Russian ambassador to France, Paris, 1895. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 6th January 1895

French Ambassador Gerard before the Guangxu Emperor of China, 1895. Artist: F Meaulle
French Ambassador Gerard before the Guangxu Emperor of China, 1895. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 20th January 1895

Napoleon at Tilsit, 1807 (1894). In July 1807 Napoleon met Tsar Alexander I of Russia on a raft in the River Niemen at Tilsit to negotiate a peace treaty between the empires of France and Russia

Baron de Courcel, the French ambassador to London, 1894. Alphonse Chodron de Courcel (1835-1919) was Frances ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1894-1898

M le Myre de Vilers in Madagascar, 1894. Artist: F Meaulle
M le Myre de Vilers in Madagascar, 1894. Myre de Vilers attempted to bring about a reconciliation between the islands government and France

Themistocles, 1615. Artist: Leonard Gaultier
Themistocles, 1615. A plate from Les Images Ou Tableaux De Platte Peinture Des Deux Philostrates Sophistes Grecs, by Blaise de Vigenere, Paris, 1615. Fround in the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

Representatives of the Allied governments, Paris, World War I, 27-29 March 1916. Representatives from France, Britain, Russia, Italy, Japan, Belgium, Portugal

Prince Ourousoff, ambassador of Russia meeting Felix Faure, 1898. Artist: F Meaulle
Prince Ourousoff, ambassador of Russia meeting Felix Faure, 1898. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 6th March 1898

Catherine II, the Great (1729-96) Empress of Russia, 1787
Catherine II, the Great (1729-1796) Empress of Russia. Catherine, Empress of Russia from 1762 with Joseph II (1741-1790) King of Germany from 1765, and Emperor of Austria from 1780

William Pitt Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst of Arracan (1773-1857), British statesman. Pitt was sent as Ambassador to China in 1816, but as he refused to perform the ceremony of kow-tow

Treaty of Portsmouth peacemakers on board the Mayflower, 1905. Count de Witte, Baron Rosen, President Theodore Roosevelt, Baron Komura and M. Takahira

Diplomats arrive for the Treaty of Portsmouth, New York Yacht Club, 1905. Count de Witte, Baron Rosen and American Secretary of State Pierce are pictured

Meeting of opposing Generals, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-5. Generals Stoessel (Russian) and Nogi (Japanese) meeting to arrange terms for the capitulation of Port Arthur by the Russians, January 1905

Britannia trying to restrain Napoleon III from embarking on war with Germany, 1870. Artist: John Tenniel
Britannia trying to restrain Napoleon III from embarking on war with Germany, 1870. Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871. The French declaration was delivered to Berlin on 19 July

Allied representatives at the Lausanne Conference, 1922
First meeting of the Allied Representatives at the Lausanne Conference, which met in November 1922, to make peace with Turkey.Left to right front row, Lord Curzon

Reception of the French Ambassador in Venice, 1726-1727. Artist: Canaletto
Reception of the French Ambassador in Venice, 1726-1727. Detail. Found in the collection of The Hermitage, St Petersburg

The Latest Trick, 1886. Artist: Joseph Swain
The Russian in this cartoon is probably General Kaulbars, the agent left to manage Bulgarian affairs after the recent abdication of Prince Alexander

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