Les Anglais au Siam, en Égypte, au Soudan et autres lieux (The English in Siam, Egypt, the Sudan and Other Places), La France illustrée
A dark engraving of three white mice at a table, one nibbling crumbs beside a basket and two drinking from a full cup, carries the caption 'The English in Siam, in Egypt, in the Sudan and other places'. Name-calling tell: the caption alone turns a still-life of vermin into a label for Britain's colonial expansion, in the weeks of the Fashoda confrontation.
- Date
- November 19, 1898
- Period
- Pre-1914
- Made by
- La France illustrée (Paris illustrated weekly); painting by Léontine Malbet
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- France
- Medium
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Dupuy Government
- Leader
- Charles Dupuy
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Themes
- Empire and colonialism, Media and information
- Event
- Fashoda Crisis
- Techniques
- Name-calling
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (from BnF Gallica, La France illustrée), retrieved September 29, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (published Paris 1898; Commons PD tag, credit BnF Gallica)
La France illustrée, Paris, 19 November 1898, after L. Malbet; BnF Gallica, via Wikimedia Commons
Text on the object
Les Anglais au Siam, en Egypte, au Soudan et autres lieux, d'après le tableau de Mlle Malbet. [signature at lower left of image:] L. MALBET
The English in Siam, in Egypt, in the Sudan and other places, after the painting by Mlle Malbet. [Signature:] L. Malbet
The caption is set in small type below the engraving and is read at the committed resolution; the signature is partly dark against the table edge.
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