2-979-639 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Banquet to Her Majesty's Ministers at the Mansion House, 1857. '...the Lord Mayor entertained [future British prime minister] Lord Palmerston in the Egyptian Hall...The company included his Excellency Ferouk Khan (the Persian Plenipotentiary) and suite...whose Oriental aspect and picturesque appointments made them objects of peculiar interest...Upon the right of the Lord Mayor are seated Viscountess Palmerston, the Turkish Ambassador, the Persian Ambassador, and Captain Lynch. Upon the left of the Lord Mayor are seated the Lady Mayoress, the French Ambassador, the Countess of Clarendon, Madame Musurus (lady of the Turkish Ambassador), the Swedish Consul, the Hon. Miss Wortley, the Earl of Harrowby, the Greek Ambassador and his lady, and the Bishop of London. Viscount Palmerston is addressing the company'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.