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A work made of albumen print.

View of the Ribble, Yorkshire

Roger Fenton · c. 1860, printed c. 1870

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Palette

Bone white
 41% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.9:1
Smoke
 26% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.4:1
Silver
 12% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.0:1
Pewter
 11% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.7:1
Ash
 6% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.4:1
Pearl grey
 3% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 11.8:1

Colours measured by this site from the museum image (k-means in CIELAB). Names are the nearest in our own list and describe how the colour looks, not the pigment. Text on each chip uses whichever of black or white contrasts more (WCAG ratio shown). How

Details

Artist
Roger Fenton
English, 1819–1869
Date
c. 1860, printed c. 1870
Type
Photograph
Medium
Albumen print
Size
Image/paper: 16.5 × 20.9 cm (6 1/2 × 8 1/4 in.); Mount: 29.4 × 37.3 cm (11 5/8 × 14 11/16 in.)
Place
England
Period
19th century
Main colour
Grey · lightness 70, colourfulness 6

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Robert Hershkowitz. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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