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Gordon was born in Woolwich, Kent, a son of Major General Henry William Gordon (1786–1865) and Elizabeth (1792–1873), daughter of Samuel Enderby Junior.The men of the Gordon family had served as officers in the British Army for four generations, and as a son of a general, Gordon was raised to be the fifth generation; the possibility that Gordon would pursue anything other than a military ...
Statue of General Gordon, seated on a camel, at Khartoum Iconographic Collections Keywords: Gordon. Credit line:
Major-General Gordon was lionised as a British war hero after his death at the end of the Siege of Khartoum in January 1885. The statue was made in 1887–88. Gordon's brother, Sir Henry Gordon, advised Thornycroft to minimise the military character of the statue, and emphasis Gordon's qualities of strength of mind, love, kindness and affection.
Gordon arrived at Khartoum on 18 February 1884, finding it was safely occupied by a garrison of 7,000 Egyptian troops and 27,000 civilians. [7] However three smaller garrisons, at Sennar , Tokar and Sinkat , were under siege by the Mahdists. [ 8 ]
General Gordon's Last Stand, 1893 painted by George W. Joy. It is one of the most famous parts of the palace, due to its appearance on an oil painting by George W. Joy telling the death of Gordon Pasha, which is currently in the Leeds City Museum. General Gordon Pasha, Governor-General of Sudan, lived on the first floor in the western wing of ...
George Gordon, 5th Duke of Gordon: Golden Square: 1842: Thomas Campbell with Macdonald Field & Co. Statue on pedestal: Granite: Category B: Q17770129 [5] [7] More images: Gordon of Khartoum: In front of Robert Gordon's College, Schoolhill: 1884: Thomas Stuart Burnett: Statue on pedestal: Bronze and granite: 5m high Category B: Q17770171 [5] [8 ...
In 2009, the article on Modern Art in Sudan stated that "artists in Khartoum have been severely hampered by the lack of exhibition space, and by the lack of patronage." [104] It mentioned only one 'semi-public' art gallery in Khartoum, and the occasional exhibition at one of the bigger hotels. Rather, it gave credit to the "major role" played ...
The College of Fine and Applied Art in Khartoum is the only public art school in Sudan.Its predecessor was founded by the British administration in 1945 as School of Design in the former Gordon Memorial College (later the University of Khartoum).