A work made of etching and drypoint with foul biting in black ink on cream laid paper.

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James McNeill Whistler · 1861

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Bone white
82% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.1:1

Pale stone
8% of the image
Grey · text contrast 11.1:1

Putty
5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.0:1

Iron
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.4:1

Stone
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.6:1

Taupe
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.6:1

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

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Artist: James McNeill Whistler
American, 1834-1903
Date: 1861
Type: Print
Medium: Etching and drypoint with foul biting in black ink on cream laid paper
Size: Plate: 10 × 12.6 cm (3 15/16 × 5 in.); Sheet: 15.5 × 15.1 cm (6 1/8 × 6 in.)
Place: United States
Period: 19th century
Main colour: White & cream · lightness 84, colourfulness 9

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

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