Brewer's: Picture

A model, or beau-ideal, as, He is the picture of health; A perfect picture of a house. (Latin, pictura.)

The Picture.
Massinger has borrowed the plot of this play from Bandello of Piedmont, who wrote novelles or tales in the fifteenth century.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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