General Charles Gordon, British soldier mb-artistname Henriette Ronner Horse-drawn hearse

Horse-drawn hearse

Half-length portrait of John Smeaton dressed in a grey suit with white shirt and neck-cloth and a short grey wig

It advertises wine

South-east view of the Church of St Margaret Lothbury

A figure carrying scales points to a solar system below the portrait

General Charles Gordon, British soldier mb-artistname Henriette Ronner Horse-drawn hearseGeneral Charles Gordon, British soldier, late 19th or early 20th century. Known as 'Chinese Gordon' because of his exploits in China in the Second Opium War and the Taiping Rebellion, Charles George Gordon (1833 1885) was killed at Khartoum, Sudan, on 26 January 1885 when the forces of the Mahdi overwhelmed the city. Lantern slide.