The phrase "a picture within" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an image that is contained inside another image or to refer to a metaphorical concept of something hidden inside a larger context.
Example: "The artist created a stunning piece, revealing a picture within the frame that told a deeper story."
Alternatives: "an image inside" or "a visual contained".
A mirror in the background reflects an outdoor scene, making it a picture within a picture.
And she said what about doing a picture within a picture, which was quite common.
Take a picture within a mile of your home, after no more than an hour of looking for your subject.
A candlestick lit on a table seems to be the source of the chiaroscuro effect contrived in a picture within the drawing, that depicts a Greek marble torso.
It's one of the only apps that will let you type, draw, write, and snap a picture within the same note without any friction.
Just yesterday, for example, she started Kidaptive's "Leo's Pad" over from the beginning and was busy coloring a picture within the app this morning at breakfast.
Zoffany's depiction of the practice, a picture-within-a-picture, is telling: charak puja fascinated the British, and yet it is shown at a level once removed.
Some of the portraits are more conceptual, like "Yifa Traoré, holding" (2011), a mise en abyme, or a picture-within-a-picture that shows the hand of the eponymous sitter holding his portrait before the Great Mosque of Djenné (the portrait itself was taken in front of the famous mud-brick mosque).
In "A View From an Apartment," the landscape visible through a bay window forms an extraordinary yet intrusive picture-within-a-picture, though the two women who occupy the apartment seem oblivious to it.
"I love that we can post a picture and within a few hours, 10 or 20 or even 40,000 people liked it or commented on it or reshared it," he said.
To me, it was a picture of holy peace within.
