"Over at the Palace Sonia McMahon is making you look over-dressed!!"

In November 1971, 39-year-old Sonia McMahon, accompanied her husband, Australian Prime Minister William McMahon, to meet US President Richard Nixon. She wore an elegant white column dress, daringly spilt to the thigh on both sides. As she glided down the stairs at the White House, flashbulbs popped, journalists sat up, and, as she put it herself, “suddenly the world knew where Australia was.” Miss World original cartoon artwork

Size 20cm x 35cm

Medium Pen and ink, half-tone tint on artboard

Publication The Sun

Published 9 November 1971