General Gordon's Last Stand



By G. W. Joy. The artist presents a wholly mythic representation of the event; Gordon was almost certainly cut down in much less heroic circumstances. Here the followers of the Mahdi are frozen in awe before hurling their spears at him.



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by Stephen Luscombe