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

Ricking the Reed

Peter Henry Emerson · 1886

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Palette

Bone white
 34% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.6:1
Smoke
 25% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.3:1
Warm grey
 21% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.2:1
Ash
 10% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.5:1
Pale stone
 5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.7:1
Slate
 5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.3:1

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. XXVII from the album "Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads" (1886)
Size
Image/paper: 23.1 × 27.3 cm (9 1/8 × 10 3/4 in.); Album page: 28.6 × 41.1 cm (11 5/16 × 16 3/16 in.)
Place
England
Period
19th century
Main colour
Grey · lightness 66, 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

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