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A work made of etching on ivory laid paper.

View of the Grand Cascade at Tivoli, from Views of Rome

Giovanni Battista Piranesi · 1766

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Palette

Stone
 19% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.1:1
Pale stone
 19% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.3:1
Taupe
 16% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.8:1
Graphite
 16% of the image
Grey · text contrast 11.0:1
Iron
 16% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.6:1
Oyster
 13% 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
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Italian, 1720-1778
Date
1766
Type
Print
Medium
Etching on ivory laid paper
Size
Image: 47.1 × 70.2 cm (18 9/16 × 27 11/16 in.); Sheet: 50.5 × 72 cm (19 15/16 × 28 3/8 in.)
Place
Italy
Period
18th century
Themes
Cities and streets
Main colour
Grey · lightness 55, colourfulness 8

Art Institute of Chicago, The Charles Deering Collection. 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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