whole-length

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It was to be a whole-length in water-colours, like Mr. John Knightley’s, and was destined, if she could please herself, to hold a very honourable station over the mantelpiece.

From "Emma" by Jane Austen

There is a whole-length with a decorative head-dress, and a landscape background.

From Some Old Time Beauties After Portraits by the English Masters, with Embellishment and Comment by Willing, Thomson

Few vestiges remain of this structure; but some of its springing arches, rising from grotesque heads, are imperfectly visible; and two whole-length figures, coarsely executed, appear through the thick-woven ivy. 

From A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire by Barber, J. T.

These engravings are most probably from the same painting—the fine whole-length exhibited last year among the collection of pictures by ancient masters in Pall Mall: "Madam Kirk, sitting in a chair, Hollar, f. h. sh."

From Notes and Queries, Number 211, November 12, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George

Van Dyck had forty pounds for a half, and sixty pounds for a whole-length picture;—for a large piece of the King, Queen, and their children, he had a hundred pounds.

From The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art by Tytler, Sarah