whole-length

English

Adjective

whole-length (not comparable)

1. (art) Depicting the whole figure.
   • 1693, A Catalogue of the Pictures in the Collection of Mr. Lanckrinck, Lately Deceased; […], London: […] [A]t Mr. Smith’s […] and at Mr. Basset’s […] and at Mr. Lanckrinck’s […], page 7:

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

   • 1730, Edward Wright, Some Observations Made in Travelling Through France, Italy, &c. in the Years 1720, 1721, and 1722, London: […] Tho. Ward and E. Wicksteed, […], page 299:

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

   • 1817 (date written), Jane Austen, chapter 12, in R[aymond] W[ilson] Chambers, editor, Fragment of a Novel Written by Jane Austen, January–March 1817 […] [Sanditon], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, published 1925, →OCLC, page 170:

     [A]s Lady D. was not there, Charlotte had leisure to look about, & to be told by M^rs 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—[…]

Coordinate terms

• half-length

Noun

whole-length (plural whole-lengths)

1. (art) A portrait or statue depicting the whole figure.

Coordinate terms

• half-length