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Publication Formats > Pictorial Work > Portrait
Publication Components > Book Illustrations > Portrait

Preferred term

Portrait  

Type

  • Publication Type

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Portraits

Note

  • this heading is used as a Publication Type; used for individual or group portraits in an article; portraits as a subject are indexed under the main heading PORTRAITS AS TOPIC

Scope note

  • Work consisting of graphic representations, especially of the face, of real persons, usually posed, living or dead. They are pictures whose purpose is the portrayal of an individual or group of individuals, not pictures which merely include people as part of an event or scene. (From Thesaurus for Graphic Materials II, p540, 1995)

History note

  • 2008(1997)

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D019477

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