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A work made of watercolor, with scraping on white wove paper.

View of Lucerne

J. M. W. Turner · 1840/41

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Palette

Oyster
 60% of the image
Green · text contrast 11.8:1
Stone
 22% of the image
Green · text contrast 7.4:1
Green earth
 10% of the image
Green · text contrast 4.5:1
Pale blue-grey
 3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.9:1
Iron
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.4:1
Graphite
 2% of the image
Black · text contrast 11.4:1

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
1840/41
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Watercolor, with scraping on white wove paper
Size
23.3 × 29.2 cm (9 3/16 × 11 1/2 in.)
Place
England
Period
19th century
Main colour
Green · lightness 73, colourfulness 12

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Miss Margaret Mower in memory of her mother, Mrs. Elsa Durand Mower. 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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