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"Ut pictura poesis" -- Horace


"I'll prose it here, I'll verse it there,
And picturesque it ev'ry where"

--The Tour of Dr Syntax in Search of the Picturesque (1812) by William Combe and Thomas Rowlandson

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  1. A representation produced by drawing, painting, printing, photography, or the mind.
  2. A painting.
    There was a picture hanging above the fireplace.
  3. A photograph.
    I took a picture of that church.
  4. A motion picture.
    Casablanca is my all-time favorite picture.

Etymology

From Middle English pycture, from Old French picture, from Latin pictūra (“the art of painting, a painting”), from pingō (“I paint”).

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