The manner of Gordon's death is uncertain, but it was romanticised in a popular painting by George William Joy – "General Gordon's Last Stand" (1893, currently in the Leeds City Art Gallery), and again in the film "Khartoum" (1966) with Charlton Heston as Gordon. The most popular account of Gordon's death was that he put on his ceremonial gold-braided blue uniform of the Governor-General together with the Pasha's red fez and that he went out unarmed, except with his rattan cane, to be cut down by the "Ansar". This account was very popular with the British press as it contained much Christian imagery with Gordon as a Christ-like figure dying passively for the sins of all humanity.