General Charles Gordon, British soldier mb-artistname Henriette Ronner A figure carrying scales points

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

with some remarks on their relative heating and illuminating powers'

Shades of Blue purple and orange

Shepperton on Thames

Horse-drawn hearse

General Charles Gordon, British soldier mb-artistname Henriette Ronner A figure carrying scales pointsGeneral 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.