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A work made of photogravure, pl. iii from the album "pictures of east anglian life" (1888).

Leafless March (Suffolk)

Peter Henry Emerson · 1878/87, printed 1888

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Palette

Bone white
 42% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.2:1
Smoke
 15% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.0:1
Warm grey
 14% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.2:1
Pale stone
 13% of the image
Grey · text contrast 11.7:1
Stone
 12% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.1:1
Putty
 5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.1:1

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
English, born Cuba, 1856–1936
Date
1878/87, printed 1888
Type
Photograph
Medium
Photogravure, pl. III from the album "Pictures of East Anglian Life" (1888)
Size
Image: 24.6 × 23.4 cm (9 11/16 × 9 1/4 in.); Album page: 42.7 × 34 cm (16 13/16 × 13 7/16 in.)
Place
England
Period
19th century
Main colour
Grey · lightness 74, 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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