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A work made of watercolor, with scraping, over graphite, on off-white wove paper, edge mounted to cream card.

Castle on Height near Geneva

J. M. W. Turner · 1836

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Palette

Stone
 37% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.7:1
Fawn
 34% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.4:1
Taupe
 21% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.2:1
Linen
 3% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.5:1
Slate
 3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.2:1
Caramel
 2% of the image
Brown · 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

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Artist
J. M. W. Turner
English, 1775–1851
Date
1836
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Watercolor, with scraping, over graphite, on off-white wove paper, edge mounted to cream card
Size
16 × 23.4 cm (6 5/16 × 9 1/4 in.)
Place
England
Period
19th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 59, colourfulness 14

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude 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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