cabinet picture

American  

noun

1. a small easel painting, usually under 3 feet (0.9 meters) in width and formerly exhibited in a cabinet or special room.

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Etymology

Origin of cabinet picture

First recorded in 1815–25

Example Sentences

As a little suggestion in regard to the selection, you can got Miss Oakley's charming little cabinet picture of   "The Little Scrap-Book Maker" for…………………… $7 50   Eastman Johnson's "Barefoot Boy,"……………..

From American Woman's Home by Beecher, Catharine Esther

Steele, in one of his numerous periodical works, the twelfth number of the “Theatre,” has drawn an exquisite contrast 172 between himself and his friend Addison: it is a cabinet picture.

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac

This story is on the scale of a cabinet picture.

From The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking Adapted to Domestic Use or Study in Classes by Campbell, Helen

On the other hand, a "cabinet picture," a small panel, will admit of microscopic detail if it be not so painted that the detail is all you can see.

From The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors by Parkhurst, Daniel Burleigh

He could fancy that scene,—he could see it all, like a beautiful cabinet picture; ah, how different, how different everything would have been then!

From The Doctor's Wife by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)