(transitive, archaic) To make a picture or representation of.
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;
(transitive, archaic) To represent in words.
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.
(transitive, archaic) To give visual evidence of (referring to a person's facial expression or appearance)
1910, anonymous, “The State of Arkansaw” in John A. Lomax, Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads, New York: Sturgis & Walton, p. 227,
I followed my conductor into his dwelling place;
Poverty were depictured in his melancholy face.
(transitive, archaic) To form a mental image of.
noun
(archaic) The act or result of depicturing something or someone.
1972, Stanley Bertram Chrimes, Henry VII, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, Appendix F: “Portraiture of Henry VII and Queen Elizabeth,” p. 333,
Three other depictures of Henry VII are known to have been made during his lifetime.