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![[General C. Gordon G. C.B., R.E., in his Palace at Khartoum writing his journal and last Dispatch, December 14, 1884.]](jpegs/4185.jpg)
[General C. Gordon G. C.B., R.E., in his Palace at Khartoum writing his journal and last Dispatch, December 14, 1884.]
[Painted by Alexander Melville, engraved by James Faed, pencil signatures]
London Published March 15th 1886 by F. C. McQueen & Son 181 Tottenham Court Road, W. Stiebold & Co Berlin Knoedler & Co New York Copyright registeredEntered according to Act of Congress in the year 1886 by Messrs. Knoedler &Co. in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
Mezzotint 560 x 440mm. Printsellers Blind Stamp, Ltd to 75 artist proof. Only 325 impressions issued prior to the plate being destroyed.
General Charles Gordon (1833 - 1885)In I882 there arose in the Soudan, a province of Upper Egypt, one Mohammed Ahmed, who called himself the Mahdi or Messiah, and invited all true believers to join in a holy war against the Christians. Thousands of wild tribesmen flocked to his banner, and in the following year he annihilated an army of eleven thousand English and Egyptians that had attempted to subdue the revolt. Rather than send more soldiers to die in the deserts of the Upper Nile, England decided to abandon the province. But first the thousands of Europeans who had taken refuge in Khartoum and other towns of the Soudan must be rescued from their perilous position. In this crisis the Government turned to the one man who could effect the withdrawal if it was still possible, and in January, 1884, appointed General Gordon to superintend the evacuation of the Soudan.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 4185] £650.00
[Painted by Alexander Melville, engraved by James Faed, pencil signatures]
London Published March 15th 1886 by F. C. McQueen & Son 181 Tottenham Court Road, W. Stiebold & Co Berlin Knoedler & Co New York Copyright registeredEntered according to Act of Congress in the year 1886 by Messrs. Knoedler &Co. in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
Mezzotint 560 x 440mm. Printsellers Blind Stamp, Ltd to 75 artist proof. Only 325 impressions issued prior to the plate being destroyed.
General Charles Gordon (1833 - 1885)In I882 there arose in the Soudan, a province of Upper Egypt, one Mohammed Ahmed, who called himself the Mahdi or Messiah, and invited all true believers to join in a holy war against the Christians. Thousands of wild tribesmen flocked to his banner, and in the following year he annihilated an army of eleven thousand English and Egyptians that had attempted to subdue the revolt. Rather than send more soldiers to die in the deserts of the Upper Nile, England decided to abandon the province. But first the thousands of Europeans who had taken refuge in Khartoum and other towns of the Soudan must be rescued from their perilous position. In this crisis the Government turned to the one man who could effect the withdrawal if it was still possible, and in January, 1884, appointed General Gordon to superintend the evacuation of the Soudan.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 4185] £650.00