General Charles Gordon, British soldier mb-artistname Henriette Ronner Half-length portrait of John Smeaton

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

View of the gateway bearing a carved key in the stone gable

whilst William Pitt is presented as an idol on stilts

with some remarks on their relative heating and illuminating powers'

General Charles Gordon, British soldier mb-artistname Henriette Ronner Half-length portrait of John SmeatonGeneral 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.