Kit-cat portrait
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- For other items called Kit Kat or Kit Cat see Kit Kat (disambiguation).
A kit-cat portrait or kit-kat portrait is a particular size of portrait, less than half-length, but including the hands.
Malone wrote in Dryden 534 (1800):
- The canvas for a Kit-kat is thirty-six inches long, and twenty-eight wide.
The name originates from a series of portraits of this size which were commissioned from Godfrey Kneller for the Kit-Cat Club. It is said to have been so called because the dining-room of the Kit-Kat Club at Barn Elms was hung with portraits of the members and was too low for half-size portraits.
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