单词 | picture-drawing |
释义 | picture-drawingn. The art or process of drawing or painting pictures, esp. (in the 17th and 18th centuries) portraits. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [noun] > portrait-painting portrait1589 picture-drawing1625 vandyking1633 portrait painting1713 1625 King Charles I Grant 4 June in R. Sanderson Rymer's Fœdera (1726) XVIII. 111 Wee, haveing experience of the Facultie and Skill of Daniel Mittens in the Art of Picture draweing, of Our especiall Grace..have given [etc.]. 1693 G. Powell Very Good Wife i. 8 He..pretends great Skill in Picture drawing, Watch-making, and such like. 1798 Baretti's Dict. Eng. & Ital. Lang. (new ed.) II Picture-drawing, pittura, l'arte del dipignere [sic]. 1880 Times 13 Feb. 12/2 Picture-drawing might even have preceded articulate speech and have helped its creation. 1962 J. Getzels & P. Jackson Creativity & lntelligence ii. 38 Imaginative production as observed in story telling and picture drawing. 1999 Tri-State Defender (Memphis, Tennessee) (Nexis) 11 Mar. 3 a A student competition in picture drawing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1625 |
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