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

Colts on a Norfolk Marsh

Peter Henry Emerson · 1883/87, printed 1888

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Palette

Oyster
 33% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.7:1
Smoke
 31% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.9:1
Warm grey
 15% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.1:1
Bone white
 11% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.0:1
Stone
 8% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.7:1
Pale stone
 3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.6:1

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
1883/87, printed 1888
Type
Photograph
Medium
Photogravure, pl. V from the album "Pictures of East Anglian Life" (1888)
Size
Image/paper: 11.9 × 18.3 cm (4 11/16 × 7 1/4 in.); Album page: 33.5 × 42.6 cm (13 1/4 × 16 13/16 in.)
Place
England
Period
19th century
Main colour
Grey · lightness 68, 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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