portrayal

plural portrayals

1. The act of portraying.
2. The result of portraying; a representation, description, or portrait.

   1909, Arnold Bennett, Literary Taste For days afterwards you will not be able to look upon a child without recalling Lamb's portrayal of the grace of childhood.

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   1866, Charlotte Yonge, The Dove in the Eagle's Nest He had already designed the portrayal of his father as the old white king, and himself as the young white king, in a series of woodcuts illustrating the narrative which culminated in the one romance of his life, ...

   Dickens was the quintessential actor, luxuriating in the portrayal of his idiosyncratic characters. In contrast, more than a characterist, Poe was above all a wonderfully musical reader, […]

   1994, Sara K. Schneider, Concert Song as Seen, page 28

   Images of Dutchness in American visual culture and literature during the nineteenth century differed radically between portrayals of the Netherlands Dutch and those of the American Dutch.

   2009, Hans Krabbendam, Cornelis A. van Minnen, Giles Scott-Smith, Four Centuries of Dutch-American Relations: 1609-2009, page 238