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A work made of photogravure, plate ii from "pictures of east anglian life," published by sampson low, marston, searle & rivington (1888).

The Poacher - A Hare in View, (Suffolk)

Peter Henry Emerson · c. 1883/87, printed 1888

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Palette

Warm grey
 62% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.6:1
Smoke
 12% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.7:1
Pale stone
 9% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.3:1
Bone white
 8% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.9:1
Stone
 5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.3:1
Putty
 4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.7:1

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
Peter Henry Emerson
printed by Ballantyne, Hanson and Co., London
Date
c. 1883/87, printed 1888
Type
Photograph
Medium
Photogravure, plate II from "Pictures of East Anglian Life," published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington (1888)
Size
Image: 28.2 × 23.4 cm (11 1/8 × 9 1/4 in.); Paper: 42.4 × 34.3 cm (16 3/4 × 13 9/16 in.)
Place
England
Period
19th century
Main colour
Grey · lightness 58, colourfulness 9

Art Institute of Chicago, Photography Gallery Fund. 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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