--- title: '"Petite scène du Congo": Brussels humorous-paper cartoon on the hanging of Stokes, reproduced in the Pall Mall Gazette, 1895' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/belgian-stokes-congo-cartoon-1895/ description: 'Newspaper clipping showing a sketch headed "Petite scène du Congo": a hanged man in a pith helmet dangles from a tree while a caricatured figure in a…' section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) **Content note:** Caricature of a hanged man and a figure taking tea beside him, depicting a real execution (Charles Stokes, 1895). This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was) [!["Petite scène du Congo": Brussels humorous-paper cartoon on the hanging of Stokes, reproduced in the Pall Mall Gazette, 1895](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/belgian-stokes-congo-cartoon-1895.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/belgian-stokes-congo-cartoon-1895.jpg) # "Petite scène du Congo": Brussels humorous-paper cartoon on the hanging of Stokes, reproduced in the Pall Mall Gazette, 1895 Newspaper clipping showing a sketch headed "Petite scène du Congo": a hanged man in a pith helmet dangles from a tree while a caricatured figure in a pith helmet sits at a camp table taking tea beside him; a French caption runs beneath and English text above and below. The tell: the hanged Englishman and the grotesque onlooker with a teacup are drawn as caricature with no account of the charge, so the picture does the labelling (name-calling). ## Text on the object Original (english and french) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` We have the pleasure to present our readers this morning with a Belgian view of the Stokes case. The elegant little sketch is borrowed from [illegible], a humorous paper published, in the Marché-aux-Poires, Brussels. The picture is headed "Petite Scène du Congo" - an episode of Congolese [illegible], as we might call it. Commentary on the beauties of the drawing would be [illegible] [French caption under the sketch, only partly legible:] Le [illegible] anglais Stokes [illegible] les petits officiers du Gouvernement congolais, [illegible] [lower columns: further English commentary, illegible at this resolution] ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` Not translated: the French caption is too partly legible to render faithfully. ``` Only the introductory English text is reasonably legible; the remainder is marked [illegible] rather than guessed. [← Kanpō (Official Gazette), extra no. 3328, p. 8 (Tokyo, 2 August 1894): 宣戦ノ詔勅 (Imperial Rescript declaring war on China)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kanpo-declaration-of-war-on-china-1894/) [劉永福懸賞抓拿日本奸細告示 (Liu Yongfu's notice offering rewards for capturing Japanese spies), Taiwan →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/liu-yongfu-reward-notice-japanese-spies-1895/) ## Using the same techniques - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Passional Christi und Antichristi: the emperor kisses the pope's foot (leaf 'Antichristus')](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/passional-christi-antichristi-emperor-kisses-pope-1521/) (Electoral Saxony · 1521 · Name-calling, Card stacking) - [Anacoana fut pendue sans raison (engraving in Le miroir de la cruelle et horrible tyrannie espagnole)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/anacoana-hanged-miroir-tyrannie-espagnole-1620/) (Dutch Republic · 1620 · Fear appeal, Name-calling). Content note: Engraving of a hanged, bare-breasted Taino woman, burning huts and people being killed by Spanish soldiers. - [Ondersoeckt de Geesten, ofse van den Duyvel syn, of niet (the De Witt brothers as devils)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ondersoeckt-de-geesten-de-witt-devils-1672/) (Dutch Republic · 1672 · Scapegoating, Name-calling) - [The Highlanders Medley, or The Duke Triumphant (A Loyal Song)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/highlanders-medley-duke-triumphant-1746/) (Great Britain · 1746 · Name-calling, Transfer) - [The North Briton, No. XLV, 23 April 1763 (John Wilkes), opening page](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/north-briton-no-45-wilkes-1763/) (Kingdom of Great Britain · Apr 23, 1763 · Name-calling) - [The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Regt.](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/revere-bloody-massacre-king-street-1770/) (Province of Massachusetts Bay · Mar 1770 · Name-calling, Card stacking). Content note: Hand-coloured engraving of bloodied dead and wounded colonists after soldiers fired on a crowd. - [Marche du Dom Quichotte moderne pour la deffence du Moulin des Abus (March of the Modern Don Quixote in Defence of the Mill of Abuses)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dom-quichotte-moulin-des-abus-1791/) (France · 1791 · Name-calling, Transfer)