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Pictorial representation   /pɪktˈɔriəl rˌɛprəzɛntˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Pictorial representation

noun
1.
Visual representation as by photography or painting.  Synonym: picturing.






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"Pictorial representation" Quotes from Famous Books



... most peculiar products of their peculiar institution. The author of the novel has lived at the South, and his descriptions of slavery display accurate observation, candid judgment, and a vivid power of pictorial representation. The scenes in New Orleans are all good; and in few novels of the present day is there a finer instance of animated narration than the account of Flora's escape from slavery. The incidents are so managed that the reader is kept in breathless suspense to the end, with sympathies ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, No. 19, May, 1859 • Various

... are ascertained in the Mendoza collection. We are given there the pictorial symbol, or coat-of-arms, of various pueblos; also, a pictorial representation of the tribute they wore expected to pay. The plate is a specimen of their tribute rolls. The pueblos paying it are not, however, shown. Considerable can be learned from a study of this collection—such, for instance, as that the Pueblo of Chala had ...
— The Prehistoric World - Vanished Races • E. A. Allen



Words linked to "Pictorial representation" :   picture taking, representation, delineation, imaging, tomography, depiction, portrayal, photography



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