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A work made of salted paper print, from the album "photographic pictures of the seat of war in the crimea" (1856).

A Quiet Day in the Mortar Battery

Roger Fenton · 1855

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Palette

Bone white
 43% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 16.3:1
Pale stone
 14% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 11.5:1
Putty
 13% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.9:1
Linen
 13% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.2:1
Mushroom
 10% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.3:1
Taupe
 7% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.4:1

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
Roger Fenton
English, 1819–1869
Date
1855
Type
Photograph
Medium
Salted paper print, from the album "Photographic Pictures of the Seat of War in the Crimea" (1856)
Size
Image/paper: 24 × 34.6 cm (9 1/2 × 13 5/8 in.); Mount: 41.7 × 53 cm (16 7/16 × 20 7/8 in.)
Place
England
Period
19th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 83, colourfulness 12

Art Institute of Chicago, Photography Gallery Fund. 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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