Too Late!

John Tenniel, artist

Swain, engraver

Punch (14 February 1885)

“Telegram, Thursday Morning, Feb. 5 —‘Khartoum taken by the Mahdi. General Gordon’s fate uncertain.’”

Punch depicts Britannia stricken with grief at the death of Gordon.

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