Verisimilitude...

[sandyRoe]

Does that word sit well here?
...techniques and craftsmanship had produced works which had such a degree of verisimilitude that they might have been photographs...

[fredpuli47]

Yes.
" As the true or real thing" : Latin 'verus' 'true, real, actual' and 'similiter' ' the same as'

[sandyRoe]

Thank you, fredpuli47.