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A work made of pen and brown ink, over graphite (recto and verso), on cream wove paper.

The Fall of the River Tumble (recto); View of Fastraly (verso)

J. M. W. Turner · 1797

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Palette

Ivory
 53% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.1:1
Parchment
 34% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.0:1
Biscuit
 6% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 11.5:1
Chalk
 4% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 17.3:1
Bone white
 2% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.3:1
Sand
 1% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.8:1

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
J. M. W. Turner
English, 1775-1851
Date
1797
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Pen and brown ink, over graphite (recto and verso), on cream wove paper
Size
31.3 × 45.7 cm (12 3/8 × 18 in.)
Place
England
Period
18th century
Themes
Rivers and lakes
Main colour
White & cream · lightness 88, colourfulness 18

Art Institute of Chicago, The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection. 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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