Sentence examples for portrait reverse from inspiring English sources

This last denomination enjoyed enormously wide currency, and its type (obverse, royal portrait; reverse, Pillars of Hercules with PLVS VLTRA on scroll) was universally known.

From about this time the types were generally standardized: obverse, king's portrait, and, reverse, some cruciform design.

As she passed the art on the walls, she seemed to become younger and younger, like a Dorian Gray portrait in reverse.

Inscriptions were in Greek and obverses bore the emperor's portrait, while reverses (dated in regnal years by Greek numerals) showed a wide variety of types embracing Hellenistic, Roman, and Egyptian symbolism.

An intriguing contemporary biography also makes the longlist: Stuart: a Life Backwards by Alexander Masters is a touching portrait, told in reverse, of a homeless man who was befriended by the author in Oxford.

When he wanted to keep a painting, he sometimes painted on the back: two brown studies for his early work The Potato Eaters have later, vibrant self-portraits on their reverse.

Coin types from this era display a highly consistent degree of quality, including meticulous attention to Domitian's titulature, and exceptionally refined artwork on the reverse portraits.

Juliet shows up toward the end of the exhibition in a reverse negative portrait -- a technique that results in a dark enigmatic shadow image of the subject.

Tablets are also more comfortable to use in landscape mode than portrait (mobile is the reverse), and have more concentrated use-cases: In mobile gaming an individual game session should fit within the period of time spent waiting for a bus, but tablets are often used for sit-down-and-play sessions.

The following text is inscribed on the reverse of portrait, "Gov.

The show was "Merrily We Roll Along," Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's reverse-chronology portrait of the toll of showbiz success.