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A work made of opaque and translucent watercolor on pith paper.

Ship paintings

Unknown artist · mid 19th century

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Palette

Cream
 57% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.2:1
Lichen
 15% of the image
Green · text contrast 7.3:1
Green earth
 15% of the image
Green · text contrast 4.4:1
Sepia
 7% of the image
Green · text contrast 8.2:1
Charcoal
 5% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.5:1
Khaki
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.6:1

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
Unknown artist
Date
mid 19th century
Type
Painting
Medium
Opaque and translucent watercolor on pith paper
Size
Each: 19.1 × 29.9 cm (7 1/2 × 11 3/4 in.)
Place
Guangdong
Period
19th century
Themes
Boats and ships
Main colour
Green · lightness 72, colourfulness 18

Art Institute of Chicago, Mrs. Clark C. Wright gift in memory of Clark C. Wright. 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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