Meaning of whole-length | Babel Free

Definitions

Depicting the whole figure.

not-comparable

Examples

“A whole-length Picture of a Woman, by Van Dyck”

“In the Great Gallery is a moſt admirable Ritratto of Cardinal Spada, a whole-length Figure, ſitting; by Guido.”

“[A]s Lady D. was not there, Charlotte had leisure to look about, & to be told by Mʳˢ P. that the whole-length Portrait of a stately Gentleman, which placed over the Mantlepeice,^([sic]) caught the eye immediately, was the picture of Sir H. Denham—[…]”

Sanditon

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