Charles George Gordon, British soldier and administrator Size:Large: 7 x 5in 3rd August 1987

3rd August 1987

View of St Marylebone Old Church and graveyard

Retreating from a much larger French army commanded by Marshal Soult

'The brilliancy of Venus [top left of image] was a spectacle which was naturally contemplated as in harmony with the rest of the day

Charles George Gordon, British soldier and administrator Size:Large: 7 x 5in 3rd August 1987Charles George Gordon, British soldier and administrator, (1893). Known as 'Chinese Gordon' because of his exploits in China in the Second Opium War and the Taiping Rebellion, General Gordon (1833 1885) was killed at Khartoum on 26 January 1885 when the forces of the Mahdi overwhelmed the city. An engraving from James Taylor's The Age We Live In: A History of the Nineteenth Century, From the Peace of 1815 to the Present Time, William Mackenzie,