A work made of etching with foul biting in black ink on cream japanese paper.

Black Lion Wharf

James McNeill Whistler · 1859

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Palette

Bone white
84% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.5:1

Putty
7% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.0:1

Pale stone
4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 11.3:1

Stone
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.9:1

Warm grey
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.5:1

Taupe
1% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.1:1

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

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Artist: James McNeill Whistler
American, 1834-1903
Date: 1859
Type: Print
Medium: Etching with foul biting in black ink on cream Japanese paper
Size: Plate: 15.2 × 22.7 cm (6 × 8 15/16 in.); Sheet: 26.5 × 38.8 cm (10 7/16 × 15 5/16 in.)
Place: United States
Period: 19th century
Main colour: White & cream · lightness 87, 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

Black Lion Wharf

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