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

Gathering Water-Lilies

Peter Henry Emerson · 1886, printed 1886

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Palette

Oyster
 43% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.8:1
Putty
 22% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.3:1
Warm grey
 15% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.9:1
Chalk
 10% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 16.1:1
Pewter
 5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.5:1
Smoke
 5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.5:1

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, printed 1886
Type
Photograph
Medium
Platinum print, pl. IX from the album "Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads" (1886)
Size
Image/paper: 19.7 × 29.1 cm (7 13/16 × 11 1/2 in.); Album page: 28.6 × 41 cm (11 5/16 × 16 3/16 in.)
Place
England
Period
19th century
Themes
Flowers
Main colour
White & cream · lightness 75, colourfulness 8

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

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