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
Mr. Whistler has whole-length portraits, or rather the shadows of people, shapes suggestive of good examples of portraiture when completed.
From The Gentle Art of Making Enemies by James McNeill Whistler
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 Edmund David Jones
The principal room on the ground-floor was a dining-room, the carved and gilt panels of which contained whole-length pictures.
From The Strand District The Fascination of London by Sir Walter Besant
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 Sarah Tytler
