A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c20.s1.107

c20.s1.107

But modern practice, influenced apparently by a false popular etymology, tends to restrict the application of the term 'miniature', as applied to independent works, to portraits on a small or *minute* scale, whether executed on ivory or other material. The extension of the term to comparatively large independent pictures, often including crowds of figures and complicated landscapes, is embarrassing.