Leopold II
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My yearly income from the Congo is millions of guineas (American cartoon, 1905)
Text: My yearly income from the Congo is millions of guineas. Year: 1905. Publisher: King Leopold’s Soliloquy. Artist: NA. Additional information: Illustration of the Belgian King Leopold II greedily hugging his money bags while a scene of colonial abuse takes place in a cloud above him. The illustration was published in 1905 in Mark Twain’s…
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Expert opinion (British cartoon, 1905)
Text: Expert opinion Year: 1905. Publisher: Punch magazine. Artist: Bernard Partridge. Additional information: Cartoon shows the Belgian Leopold II speaking with the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II. Leopold complains about the “silly fuss they’re making about these so-called atrocities in my Congo property”, while Abdul Hamid replies that he needn’t worry: “Only talk, my dear…
