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A work made of oil on canvas.

Milton Dictating to His Daughter

Henry Fuseli · 1794

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Palette

Dark chocolate
 65% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.4:1
Coffee
 18% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.7:1
Taupe
 11% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.9:1
Mushroom
 3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.1:1
Mahogany
 1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 12.7:1
Sepia
 1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.7:1

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
Henry Fuseli
Date
1794
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
121.2 × 118.7 cm (47 3/4 × 46 3/4 in.); Framed: 142.9 × 130.5 cm (56 1/4 × 51 3/8 in.)
Place
Switzerland
Period
Romanticism · 18th century
Themes
Reading and letters
Main colour
Black · lightness 19, colourfulness 10

Art Institute of Chicago, Preston O. Morton Memorial Purchase Fund for Older Paintings. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-31); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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