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
The Knight is a true Hero, a good, great and wise man; his whole-length portrait on horseback, as written by Chaucer, cannot be surpassed.
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund David
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
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.
To the former is attributed the large whole-length portrait at Hampton Court of Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey, in a suit of bright red.
From Six Centuries of Painting by Davies, Randall
