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 he painted portraits with great success; his prices being fifteen guineas for a head, twenty if with one hand, thirty for a half, and sixty for a whole-length portrait.
From The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art by Tytler, Sarah
Again, there is a whole-length showing her about to descend some steps to a lawn, her superb shoulders and neck bare, and her hair highly bedecked with feathers.
From Some Old Time Beauties After Portraits by the English Masters, with Embellishment and Comment by Willing, Thomson
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
