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Pandora and Her New Box

pandora_opening_her_box_by_james_gillrayThis 1809 cartoon by the political caricaturist James Gillray is in the National Portrait Gallery. London.

It is entitled Pandora Opening her Box.

It depicts spokesperson Kellyanne Conway letting loose all the evils of the world as proposed by the Trump administration.

The story behind the woman in the cartoon – Mary Ann Clarke – is fascinating.

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