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

Water-Lilies

Peter Henry Emerson · 1886

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Palette

Silver
24% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.1:1

Warm grey
23% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.0:1

Ash
19% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.2:1

Chalk
14% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 16.0:1

Pale stone
11% of the image
Grey · text contrast 11.0:1

Smoke
8% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.8:1

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: 1886
Type: Photograph
Medium: Platinum print, pl. VIII from the album "Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads" (1886)
Size: Image/paper: 12.3 × 28.5 cm (4 7/8 × 11 1/4 in.); Album page: 28.6 × 41 cm (11 5/16 × 16 3/16 in.)
Place: England
Period: 19th century
Themes: Flowers
Main colour: Grey · lightness 69, colourfulness 6

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