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A Sailing Match at Horning

A work made of platinum print, pl. iv from the album "life and landscape on the norfolk broads" (1886).

A Sailing Match at Horning

Peter Henry Emerson · 1885, printed 1886

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Palette

Oyster
62% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.2:1

Pale stone
16% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.5:1

Chalk
11% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.9:1

Stone
7% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.5:1

Smoke
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.7:1

Slate
1% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.1:1

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: Peter Henry Emerson
English, born Cuba, 1856–1936
Date: 1885, printed 1886
Type: Photograph
Medium: Platinum print, pl. IV from the album "Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads" (1886)
Size: Image/paper: 22.5 × 28.8 cm (8 7/8 × 11 3/8 in.); Album page: 28.6 × 40.5 cm (11 5/16 × 16 in.)
Place: England
Period: 19th century
Themes: Boats and ships
Main colour: White & cream · lightness 82, colourfulness 9

Art Institute of Chicago, Ada Turnbull Hertle Fund. 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