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

Ship paintings

Unknown artist · mid 19th century

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Palette

Ivory
67% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.3:1

Olive brown
11% of the image
Green · text contrast 7.0:1

Green earth
9% of the image
Green · text contrast 4.9:1

Charcoal
8% of the image
Black · text contrast 13.9:1

Putty
4% of the image
Green · text contrast 9.8:1

Khaki
1% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.0:1

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

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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: White & cream · lightness 74, colourfulness 15

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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