Diplomatic Gallery

There are over 120 photographs and engravings hanging in what Seward called his “diplomatic gallery.” Seward gradually added to this collection while he was Secretary of State until every country that the United States had a diplomatic relationship with was represented. There are presidents, kings, queens and foreign ministers and diplomats. Some people were important in Seward’s life and others were people that he admired. Seward met many of these people and some are signed to him. Seward used to say of his large gallery: “Yes, those are my tormentors.” The numbering scheme roughly groups people geographically.

*Please click on any photo for a larger view of the image and the names of the people*

1 - Archbishop John Hughes
2 - General Giuseppe Garibaldi
3 - Victor Emmanuel II, King of Sardinia
4 - Pope Pius IX
5 - Cardinal Giacomo Antonelli
6 - John Brown
7 - Emperor Maximilian of Mexico
8 - Empress Carlota of Mexico
9 - Franz Josef I
10 - Elizabeth, Empress of Austria
11 - Napoleon I
12 - Napoleon III
13 - Eugenie, Empress of France
14 - Lord John Russell, Prime Minister of Great Britain
15 - Queen Victoria of England
17 - Treaty of Commerce
18 - Sire Richard Cobden
19 - Lord Lyons
20 - English House of Commons
22 - Prince Alexandre Gortchakov
23 - Prince Albert
24 - Queen Victoria of England
26 - William Henry Seward
27 - Washington Library of British Minister Sir Frederick Bruce
28 - Maria Alexandrovna, Empress of Russia
29. Alexander II, Emperor of Russia:
30. Countess Madame Anna de Sartiges
31. Count de Sartiges
33. William I, King of Prussia
34. Prince Otto von Bismarck
35. Sir Frederick Bruce
36. Lord Napier
37. Lady Napier and Sons
38. Count de Sartiges
39. Count Piper
40. Christian den Niende (Christian IX), King of Denmark
41. Louise, Queen of Denmark
42. Prince Frederick of Sweden
44. Prince Krom Hluang Wangsa, King of Siam
45. Tycoon of Japan
46. Ono Tomogora
47. Matamoto Judayes
48. Anson Burlingame and Chinese Embassy
49. Chinese Imperial Cabinet at Peking
50. Japanese Legation at Washington
52. William III, King of the Netherlands
53. Sophie Mathilda, Queen of the Netherlands
54. Doctor Valentine Mott.
55. Doctor Eliphalet Nott, D.D., L.L.D.
56. St. Stephen’s Cathedral
58. National Monument to the Forefathers
59. Mr. Fetman
60. Andrew Johnson
62.Thurlow Weed
63 - Turkish Firman
64 - William Henry Seward
66 ½ - William Henry Seward. Numbered as a nod to close friendship between Seward and Lincoln (#66).
66 - Abraham Lincoln
 67 - Legion of Union: 1864.
72 - Bishop McIlvaine
73. Archbishop of Chile
74. George Robinson
75. Judge Aaron Goodrich
77. Charlotte Cushman
78. Arthur Fletcher
80. Abdul Aziz
81. Mohammed Ali
82. Server Ismail Pacha
83. Ali Pacha, Grand Vizier of Turkey
84. D.A. Duekwitz
85. Bey of Tunis
86. Charles XV, King of Sweden and Norway
87. Louise, Queen of Sweden and Norway
88. Leopold I, King of Belgium
89. Leopold II, King of Belgium
90. Marie Henriette, Queen of Belgium
91. Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders
92. Benito Juarez President of Mexico
93. Margarita Maza de Juarez
94. Matias Romero
95. Santos Degollado
96. Sebastian Lerdo de Tajado.
97. J. Eolio
98. Isabella II, Queen of Spain
99 - Alfonso, King of Spain
100. Francisco Solano Lopez
101. Juan Crisostomo Falcon
102. Jose Santos Gutierrez Prieto
103 - Manuel Murillo Toro
104 - Ramon Castilla
105 - Jakob Stampfli
106 - Fabre-Nicholas Geffrad
107 - Urbano Retazzi
108 - Unknown
110 - Stephen Allen Benson
111 - Joseph Jenkins Roberts
112 - Leopold I, King of Belgium
113 - Eduard de Stoeckl
114 - Joseph Bertinatti
115 - Baron von Selden
116 - Domingo Dulce
117 - Dom Pedro II
118 - William Henry Seward II
119 - Emma, Queen of the Sandwich Islands
120 - Rasoherina, Queen of Madagascar
121 - Mongkut, King of Siam
123 - Charles Frederic Froncois, Marquis de Montholon
125 - Francisco Astaburuaga Cienfuegos
126 - Luis Molina
127 - Sir John Lawrence
128 - Unknown: signed illegible
130 - The Darien Canal Treaty
Henry Clay
William Henry Seward II