depicture

To make a picture or representation of.

The bed appointed for the prince to rest himselfe, was of blacke Ebonie enchased which Rubies, Diamons and Carbun[c]ls […] on which by degrees mans state from infancie to his olde age was plainly depictured,

1749 Henry Fielding, A Journey from this World to the Next, Book 1, Chapter 3, in The Works of Henry Fielding, London: J. Johnson et al., 1806, Volume 4, pp. 339-340, I next mounted through a large painted staircase, where several persons were depictured in caricatura;

To represent in words.

The modern Fiction which depictures the son of Cytherea [i.e. Eros] with a bandage round his eyes, is not without a spiritual meaning. There is a sweet and holy Blindness in Christian LOVE […]

1862, Ellen Wood (as Mrs. Henry Wood), Life’s Secret, London: Charles W. Wood, 1867, Volume 2, Chapter 9, p. 192, You have seen some of its [the dispute’s] disastrous working upon the men: you cannot see it all, for it would take a whole volume to depicture it.

To give visual evidence of (referring to a person's facial expression or appearance)

[…] he entered the church with a proud firm step, and with a countenance which depictured his inward triumph;

A look, depicturing such agony as Ingram never saw before, in the face of man, accompanied this declaration on the part of his friend […]

To form a mental image of.

[…] I would depicture her, a foiled and wistful little wraith, very lonely in eternity […]

The act or result of depicturing something or someone.

The conception of a misdeed operating through several generations […] was a novel one at the time; this graphic depicture of the past at work upon the present has anticipated a great deal of the history and criticism of the following twenty-five years […]

No pen could do them justice; and, among painters, only the brush of a Corot could attempt their depicture without depriving them of their exquisite, their almost evanescent, softness.