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A work made of color woodblock print; oban triptych.

A Picture of Prosperity: America (Amerika shin no zu)

Utagawa Hiroshige II (Shigenobu) · 1861

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Palette

Putty
 33% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.5:1
Warm grey
 27% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.2:1
Turquoise
 25% of the image
Teal · text contrast 6.4:1
Cinnamon
 10% of the image
Pink · text contrast 5.9:1
Prussian blue
 2% of the image
Blue · text contrast 12.6:1
Coral
 2% of the image
Red · text contrast 5.1:1

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
Utagawa Hiroshige II (Shigenobu)
Japanese, 1826-1869
Date
1861
Type
Print
Medium
Color woodblock print; oban triptych
Size
37.2 × 75.2 cm (14 11/16 × 29 5/8 in.)
Place
Japan
Period
19th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 62, colourfulness 19

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 1869: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1940. Last checked 2026-10-31 (is_public_domain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

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