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A work made of oil on mahogany panel.

Conflagration of the Masonic Hall, Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Samuel Jones · 1819

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Palette

Bistre
 47% of the image
Black · text contrast 14.0:1
Coffee
 21% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.9:1
Cinnamon
 14% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.5:1
Umber
 11% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.0:1
Sienna
 4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.5:1
Dark ochre
 3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.7:1

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
Samuel Jones
Possibly John Lewis Krimmel (American, born Germany, 1786–1821)
Date
1819
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on mahogany panel
Size
48.4 × 60 cm (19 3/16 × 22 3/16 in.)
Place
Philadelphia
Period
19th century
Themes
Cities and streets
Main colour
Brown · lightness 24, colourfulness 15

Art Institute of Chicago, Purchased with funds provided by Wesley M. Dixon Jr., Jamee J. and Marshall Field, Gloria and Richard Manney, Brooks and Hope B. McCormick Foundation, Mrs. Philip D. Sang, and Jeffrey Shedd; gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne, Leon Mandel, Stella Manheimer, Vena F. Schaaf, and Celia Schmidt by exchange; the Edward E. Ayer, Marian and Samuel Klasstorner, and A.A. McKay funds. 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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