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Utagawa Sadahide
Chinese Man from Nanking Admiring a Fan (Shincho Nankinjin kansho Koshu ogi no zu), from the series "Foreigners Drawn from Life (Ikiutsushi ikoku jinbutsu)"

Black and white photograph of river seen through pine tree forest.

Chinese Man from Nanking Admiring a Fan (Shincho Nankinjin kansho Koshu ogi no zu), from the series "Foreigners Drawn from Life (Ikiutsushi ikoku jinbutsu)"

Utagawa Sadahide · 1860

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Palette

Putty
61% of the image
Green · text contrast 9.2:1

Taupe
17% of the image
Pink · text contrast 5.0:1

Charcoal
15% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.7:1

Brick
4% of the image
Red · text contrast 6.5:1

Prussian blue
2% of the image
Blue · text contrast 12.8:1

Blue-grey
1% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.0:1

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: Utagawa Sadahide
Japanese, 1807-1873
Date: 1860
Type: Print
Medium: Color woodblock print; oban
Place: Japan
Period: 19th century
Main colour: Green · lightness 59, colourfulness 16

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne. Museum record. Public domain. United States: Art Institute of Chicago marks it public domain (is_public_domain = True). Europe: Artist died 1873: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1944. Last checked 2026-10-31 (is_public_domain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules