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Pale silhouettes of two flowering branches.

Two Plant Specimens

William Henry Fox Talbot · 1839

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Palette

Dusty rose
 30% of the image
Pink · text contrast 4.5:1
Taupe
 24% of the image
Pink · text contrast 5.8:1
Warm grey
 19% of the image
Pink · text contrast 5.2:1
Ash
 17% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.5:1
Mushroom
 9% of the image
Pink · text contrast 6.4:1
Putty
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.2:1

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
1839
Type
Photograph
Medium
Photogenic drawing
Size
22.1 × 18 cm (8 3/4 × 7 1/8 in.); Mount: 29 × 21.5 cm (11 7/16 × 8 1/2 in.); Image/paper: 22.1 × 18.1 cm (8 11/16 × 7 1/8 in.)
Place
England
Period
19th century
Themes
Flowers
Main colour
Pink · lightness 54, colourfulness 18

Art Institute of Chicago, Edward E. Ayer Endowment in memory of Charles L. Hutchinson. 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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