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
Between the tops of the arches, which were cased with Norman masonry, was the whole-length figure of a Roman soldier.
From Vanishing England by Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)
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
The picture we give of her is from a whole-length by Gavin Hamilton, a Scotch artist, a friend of Burns, born in Lanark about 1730.
From Some Old Time Beauties After Portraits by the English Masters, with Embellishment and Comment by Willing, Thomson
Granger mentions also a whole-length of Bobart in a garden, dog, goat, &c. 4to.
From On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions by Felton, Samuel
