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A work made of transfer lithograph in black on off-white wove paper.

Design cover for West Point Song of the Graduates

James McNeill Whistler · 1852

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Palette

Bone white
 64% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.4:1
Pale stone
 19% of the image
Grey · text contrast 11.4:1
Ivory
 6% of the image
Green · text contrast 16.3:1
Silver
 6% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.3:1
Ash
 4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.1:1
Smoke
 1% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.6:1

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
James McNeill Whistler
American, 1834-1903
Date
1852
Type
Print
Medium
Transfer lithograph in black on off-white wove paper
Size
Image: 33.6 × 22.2 cm (13 1/4 × 8 3/4 in.); Sheet: 34.1 × 26.1 cm (13 7/16 × 10 5/16 in.)
Place
United States
Period
19th century
Main colour
White & cream · lightness 87, colourfulness 9

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Walter S. Brewster. 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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