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A work made of salted paper print.

The Fruit Sellers

William Henry Fox Talbot · c. 1842/45

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Palette

Stone
 42% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.5:1
Mushroom
 32% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.3:1
Putty
 8% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.3:1
Bone white
 8% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.5:1
Pale stone
 6% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.8:1
Linen
 4% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.1:1

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
c. 1842/45
Type
Photograph
Medium
Salted paper print
Size
Image: 17 × 21.1 cm (6 3/4 × 8 5/16 in.); Paper: 18.8 × 22.5 cm (7 7/16 × 8 7/8 in.)
Place
England
Period
19th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 67, colourfulness 12

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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