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

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

There was a poncho about the neck, that covered it down to the ground, and in the morning gray, the figure, the colonnade of tree-trunks, the lazy smoke, a cabinet picture, wore an India-rubber look.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 by Various

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)

She turned rapidly over the pages until she reached a cabinet picture of a dark-eyed, dark-haired, trim-built young officer in cavalry undress uniform.

From Marion's Faith. by King, Charles

It had been brought from Spain many years before by her father, with a cabinet picture of Mater Dolorosa, which now hung over it.

From May Brooke by Dorsey, Anna Hanson