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A work made of salted paper print.

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William Henry Fox Talbot · 1843-44

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Palette

Iron
 44% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.2:1
Graphite
 33% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.4:1
Taupe
 9% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.4:1
Warm grey
 7% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.0:1
Mushroom
 4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.1:1
Silver
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.0:1

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
William Henry Fox Talbot
English, 1800-1877
Date
1843-44
Type
Photograph
Medium
Salted paper print
Size
Image: 13.7 × 18.2 cm (5 7/16 × 7 3/16 in.); Paper: 18.7 × 22.4 cm (7 3/8 × 8 5/8 in.)
Place
England
Period
19th century
Main colour
Brown · lightness 38, colourfulness 10

Art Institute of Chicago, The Mary and Leigh Block Endowment 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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