The Collaborative International Dictionary
Iconograph \I*con"o*graph\, n. [See Iconography.] An engraving or other picture or illustration for a book.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A picture formed by a word or words. 2 (cx dated English) An engraving or other picture or illustration for a book.
Wikipedia
An iconograph is a picture formed by a word or words. It can take the form of irregularly shaped letters or (especially in the case of poems) irregularly aligned text.
American poet May Swenson popularized such poems in her 1970 book Iconographs, which contained a number of poems laid out to resemble their subjects (e.g. a butterfly).
Usage examples of "iconograph".
Otto Chriek of the Times was waiting in the street, iconograph at the ready.
Koom Valley, our friend Otto will be able to take a colour iconograph of it in a fraction of a second.
There were also group etchings – and, more recently, new-fangled iconographs – of the Guild, rows of smiling faces on black-clad bodies and the youngest members sitting cross-legged in front, one of them making a face.