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A work made of salted paper print.

Lace

William Henry Fox Talbot · 1844/45

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Palette

Linen
 26% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.1:1
Mushroom
 25% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.4:1
Warm grey
 22% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.5:1
Pale stone
 21% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.3:1
Iron
 3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.2:1
Taupe
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.2:1

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
1844/45
Type
Photograph
Medium
Salted paper print
Size
Image: 18.6 × 22.8 cm (7 3/8 × 9 in.); Paper: 18.6 × 22.5 cm (7 3/8 × 8 7/8 in.)
Place
England
Period
19th century
Main colour
Grey · lightness 71, colourfulness 11

Art Institute of Chicago, Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Everett Kovler. 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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