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Old Westminster Bridge

A work made of etching and drypoint in black ink on ivory laid paper.

Old Westminster Bridge

James McNeill Whistler · 1859

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Palette

Oyster
87% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.6:1

Putty
6% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.0:1

Stone
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.2:1

Warm grey
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.5:1

Smoke
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.9:1

Iron
1% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.3:1

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: James McNeill Whistler
American, 1834-1903
Date: 1859
Type: Print
Medium: Etching and drypoint in black ink on ivory laid paper
Size: Plate: 7.3 × 19.9 cm (2 7/8 × 7 7/8 in.); Sheet: 11.3 × 26.1 cm (4 1/2 × 10 5/16 in.)
Place: United States
Period: 19th century
Themes: Cities and streets
Main colour: White & cream · lightness 84, colourfulness 8

Art Institute of Chicago, John H. Wrenn Memorial Collection. 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