Definition of "pictorial representation" []

• Visual representation as by photography or painting (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "A narrow and ill-lighted staircase gave access to an equally narrow and ill-lighted passage-way on the first floor, at the extremity of which, surmounting a door frame, appeared an exceedingly stiff pictorial representation of the Goose and Gridiron, according to the English idea of those ever-to-be-honored symbols."
• "In the miniatures of an Alexandrian "Chronicle of the World", written probably during the fifth century we already find pictorial representation of the omophorion."
• "However, at least this one question must be touched upon. in this connection: "Does this chapter present an actual narrative of facts, or have we here perhaps a skilful allegory, as many fathers of the church believed, or shall we label this merely a pictorial representation intended to convey some general impressions '(Dods)?""