Title

General Charles Gordon, 19th century British soldier, (1900).Artist: Adams and Scanlan

Caption

General Charles Gordon, 19th century British soldier, (1900). 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. A print from The Life and Times of Queen Victoria, by Robert Wilson, Volume IV, Cassell and Company, London, Paris, New York, Melbourne, 1900.
The Print Collector collection

Date

1900

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19C27_272

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,1Mb (7,0Mb) / 12,4in x 15,7in / 3719 x 4710 (300dpi)

Keywords

England face job hat country body occupation clothes British English decoration Sudan dress war location Victorian century Britain moustache profession general soldiers soldier fez concept B&W attache MONOCHROME administrator military uniform 19th century black & white black and white B W Military personnel nineteenth century The Print Collector British Empire colonialism tarboosh the body Charles George Gordon General Gordon engraving portrait attaché Robert Gordon General Charles George Chinese Gordon Cherles George Wilson Robert Wilson Adams and Scanlan Robert Wilson engraving portrait