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pictorial, a. (n.)|pɪkˈtɔərɪəl|
[f. late L. pictōri-us (f. pictor a painter) + -al1. (Used by Sir T. Browne (in sense 1), but not in general use before 1800.)]
A. adj.
1. Of, belonging to, or produced by the painter; of or pertaining to painting or drawing. Now rare.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. xxiv. 170 Sea-horses..are but Crotesco deliniations which fill up empty spaces in Maps, and meere pictoriall inventions, not any Physicall shapes. 1755Johnson, Pictorial, produced by a painter. [Quotes Browne, and remarks] ‘A word not adopted by other writers, but elegant and useful.’ 1810in Spirit Pub. Jrnls. XIV. 205 Royal Academy Dinner. A pictorial vision. 1813T. Busby Lucretius II. iv. Comm. p. xii, Attention to the laws of perspective, which is, in fact, but a pictorial optic, will instruct the reader. 1833J. Martineau Misc. (1852) 32 Conception..is emphatically the pictorial faculty needed by the illustrating artist. 1855Thackeray Newcomes xii, ‘Far be it from me to say that the pictorial calling is not honourable’, says Uncle Charles.
2. Consisting of, expressed in, or of the nature of, a picture or pictures.
1807A. Seward Lett. (1811) VI. 329 Not the wealthy..who exhibit in their boudoirs and drawing rooms, new publications in the luxury of pictorial ornaments. 1861Stanley East. Ch. ix. (1869) 305 Pictorial communications are probably the chief sources of religious instruction imparted to the..Russian peasantry. 1876Birch Egypt 8 The hieroglyphs or pictorial forms were used..above one thousand years after they ceased to represent the vernacular or spoken language of Egypt.
3. Containing or illustrated by a picture or pictures; illustrated. pictorial paper = sense B.
1826Disraeli Viv. Grey i. i, Taught at home on the new system, by a pictorial alphabet. 1840Hood Up Rhine 49 Its features being such as are common on the pictorial Dutch tiles. 1864Knight Passages Work. Life II. xii. 253 At the beginning of 1836, the first number of ‘The Pictorial Bible’ was issued. In hitting upon the word ‘Pictorial’ I felt that I was rather daring in the employment of a term which the Dictionaries pronounced as ‘not in use’. 1873‘Mark Twain’ & Warner Gilded Age xliii. 394 The pictorial papers caricatured its friends. 1897Pearson's Mag. IV. 405 It is a wonderful invention—this pictorial postcard craze. 1933Burlington Mag. Sept. 140/2 The student who has not an extensive library might like to have possessed a pictorial record. 1935Discovery Dec. 365/2 Sets of pictorial postcards of the park and its inhabitants. 1937J. R. Hunt (title) Pictorial journalism. 1948C. Abel Business of Photogr. v. 37 Another offshoot of commercial photography..is the growing field of pictorial journalism. 1968G. Jones Hist. Vikings iii. ii. 188 From the Gotland pictorial stones it appears that sail could be effectively shortened by the use of reefing lines.
4. fig. Like a picture; representing as if by a picture; picturesque, graphic.
1829Landor Imag. Conv., Marvel & Bp. Parker Wks. 1853 II. 116/2 He has given us such a description of Eve's beauty as appears to me somewhat too pictorial, too luxuriant. 1841D'Israeli Amen. Lit. (1867) 477 Of all poets Spenser excelled in the pictorial faculty. 1882Farrar Early Chr. I. 262 If God is spoken of as having hands, arms, feet, and so on, those, he says, must be simply looked upon as pictorial phrases.
B. as n.
1. A journal of which pictures are the main feature.
1844Knickerbocker XXIII. 197 ‘The Columbian’..is to run a brisk competition..with the other pictorials. 1851C. Cist Sk. Cincinnati in 1851 iv. 77 Illustrated Western World... Oncken's Western Scenery... These two last are pictorials. 1880(title of periodical) The Lady's Pictorial. 1904Westm. Gaz. 17 Aug. 10/1 In the case of magazine articles, pamphlets, &c.,..and of periodicals and ‘pictorials’. 1934G. B. Shaw Too True to be Good i. 43 In her lily hand was a copy of The Lady's Pictorial. It contained an illustrated account of your jewels.
2. A postage stamp on which a picture or scene is printed, usu. to commemorate a particular anniversary or event.
1934in Webster. 1939P. Hamilton Hundred Years of Postage Stamps v. 74 Pictorials are a characteristic feature of the second half of our hundred years of postage stamps. 1953Harrison & Armstrong New Approach to Stamp Collecting xii. 173 The rocky finances of certain Central and South American states were the healthier for some really splendid ‘pictorials’. 1973Daily Tel. 8 Jan. 9/3 The islands' first pictorials, showing views of the various islands, were issued in 1942–43. 1974W. Finlay Illustr. Hist. Stamp Design ix. 119/1 The issues of the six Australian states..included a fair number of pictorials.
Hence picˈtorialism, the practice of a pictorial style (lit. and fig.), the use of pictorial representation; picˈtorialist, one who practises a pictorial style; picˈtorialize v., to represent in, or as in, a picture; to illustrate with pictures; hence picˌtorialiˈzation; picˈtorialness, pictorial quality, graphic character.
1869Pennsylv. School Jrnl. Feb. 218 Sensationalism and *pictorialism, and the imaginings of sensuousness and sentimentality. 1885Manch. Exam. 4 Feb. 3/5 Unfaithful to the traditions of pictorialism.
1839Blackw. Mag. XLV. 530 Not by the minute pencilling of the *pictorialists. 1971Amat. Photographer 3 Mar. 6/2 The panel..does not have the dynamic impact of new pictures or of the more forceful avant-garde work of some modern pictorialists. 1979G. Macdonald Camera xii. 169/1 The aping of the avant garde by some of the pictorialists.
1901Edin. Rev. Jan. 36 The impulse towards the *pictorialisation of nature.
1870Daily News 20 Dec., We have been eulogised and *pictorialised to an extent almost incredible. 1888Cave Inspiration O. Test. vi. 309 There is no pictorializing, there is no idolizing of deity.
1876A. Edersheim Jew. Life Days Christ vii. 103 The multiplicity and *pictorialness of the expressions. 1881Scribner's Mag. XXII. 148 This group adds immensely to the pictorialness of the picture.
Add:[B.] [1.] b. A magazine article which consists principally of photographs; a picture-story.
Chiefly with reference to ‘pin-up’ features in Playboy magazine.
1978Washington Post Mag. 16 July 5 About 25 of the women shot in Washington will eventually be used in a pictorial in the magazine. 1986Marketing 11 Sept. 51/2 By having high profile pictorials the image and tone is set, heightening awareness. 1989Washington Post 27 Feb. b3/4 Three young women..in the..April Playboy magazine..pictorial of ‘Girls of the Big East Conference’. |