Private Property: No Admittance to Philanthropists (Congo State), F. C. Gould
A bearded, pith-helmeted man in a heavy coat leans with folded arms and a cigar against a tall fence beside a gate lettered 'Private property, no admittance to philanthropists, Congo State', with a skull on a post above and a dark handprint at the foot of the gate. Name-calling tell: the sign turns Leopold II's own claim of ownership into the label, and the props (skull, handprint) supply the accusation without any figures.
- Date
- July 1906
- Period
- Pre-1914
- Made by
- Francis Carruthers Gould (London political cartoonist; collected in 'Picture-Politics')
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- Individual
- Regime
- Campbell Bannerman Government
- Leader
- Henry Campbell Bannerman
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Theme
- Empire and colonialism
- Event
- Congo Reform Campaign
- Techniques
- Name-calling
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (Picture-Politics, London), retrieved September 29, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (published London 1906; artist d. 1925; Commons PD tag)
Francis Carruthers Gould, cartoon of 1906, from Picture-Politics (London), via Wikimedia Commons
Text on the object
PRIVATE PROPERTY NO ADMITTANCE TO PHILANTHROPISTS CONGO STATE [monogram, lower right:] F.C.G.
A caption line beneath the drawing is cut off by the crop of the source scan and is not readable.
