The idea that a picture can convey what might take many words to express was voiced by a character in Ivan S. Turgenev's novel Fathers and Sons, 1862:
"The drawing shows me at one glance what might be spread over ten pages in a book."
But this was not the first time this expression appeared. It started popping up, in various forms, around 1800. Read about its history here.
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