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A picture produced in oils by a process analogous to that of lithographic printing.

Art or process of producing the pictures known as oleographs.

A picture taken on "milky" glass.

ng. Painters, by their outlines, colors, lights, and shadows, represent the same in their pictures. Dryden.

subject (a plate or film) too long to the actinic action of the light used in producing a picture. -- O`ver*ex*po"sure (#), n.

epresented in color on a flat surface; a colored representation of any object or scene; a picture.

n it the required pigments in a certain order, according to the intended use of them in a picture. Fairholt.

A slab or plank of wood upon which, instead of canvas, a picture is painted.

A picture presenting a view of objects in every direction, as from a central point.

A light picture frame or mat of cardboard, wood, or the like, usually put between the picture and the glass, and sometimes serving for several pictures.

he action of some agent; as, in Latin, doceor, I am taught; in English, she is loved; the picture is admired by all; he is assailed by slander.

ontagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality; as, the pathos of a picture, of a poem, or of a cry. The combination of incident, and the pathos of catastrophe. T. Warton.

The work of the pencil or bruch; as, delicate penciling in a picture.

A picture, or combination of pictures, consisting of a centerpiece and double folding doors or wings, as for an altarpiece.

The part of a picture where the shade imperceptibly blends with the light.

tive. Perspective plane, the plane or surface on which the objects are delineated, or the picture drawn; the plane of projection; -- distinguished from the ground plane, which is that on which the objects are represented as standing. When this plane is oblique to the principal face of the object, the perspective is cal…

An instrument for obtaining, and transferring to a picture, the points and outlines of objects, so as to represent them in their proper geometrical relations as viewed from some one point.

Acting by the operation of both light and electricity; -- said of apparatus for producing pictures by electric light.

an etched or engraved plate from the photographic image, to be used in printing; also, a picture produced by such a process.

A picture or likeness obtained by photography.