Kit-cat portrait

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A kit-cat portrait or kit-kat portrait is a particular size of portrait, less than half-length, but including the hands.

Malone wrote in Dryden 534 (1800):

The canvas for a Kit-kat is thirty-six inches long, and twenty-eight wide.

The name originates from a series of portraits of this size which were commissioned by Godfrey Kneller for the Kit-Cat Club.

 

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