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

A Stiff Pull, (Suffolk)

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

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Palette

Stone
 24% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.1:1
Pale stone
 21% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.6:1
Warm grey
 19% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.7:1
Putty
 19% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.0:1
Taupe
 9% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.4:1
Bone white
 8% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.0:1

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
c. 1883/87, printed 1888
Type
Photograph
Medium
Photogravure, plate IV from "Pictures of East Anglian Life," published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington (1888)
Size
Image: 20.8 × 28.7 cm (8 1/4 × 11 5/16 in.); Paper: 33.6 × 42.7 cm (13 1/4 × 16 13/16 in.)
Place
England
Period
19th century
Main colour
Grey · lightness 65, colourfulness 10

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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