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A work made of photogravure, plate xlvii from the album "the compleat angler or the contemplative man's recreation, volume ii" (1888).

"Pickering Tor," Dove Dale

Peter Henry Emerson · 1880s

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Palette

Bone white
 37% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.5:1
Sepia
 24% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.5:1
Taupe
 21% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.6:1
Stone
 8% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.9:1
Green earth
 5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.6:1
Putty
 4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.2:1

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
1880s
Type
Photograph
Medium
Photogravure, plate XLVII from the album "The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation, Volume II" (1888)
Size
Image: 15.2 × 20 cm (6 × 7 7/8 in.); Paper: 16.7 × 21.2 cm (6 5/8 × 8 3/8 in.); Album page: 24.5 × 31.9 cm (9 11/16 × 12 9/16 in.)
Place
England
Period
19th century
Themes
Birds
Main colour
Brown · lightness 60, colourfulness 12

Art Institute of Chicago, Purchased with funds provided by William Mares. 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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