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

Poling the Marsh Hay

Peter Henry Emerson · 1886

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Palette

Smoke
 37% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.5:1
Pewter
 26% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.7:1
Chalk
 13% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.1:1
Ash
 13% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.9:1
Warm grey
 8% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.9:1
Pale stone
 4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.8:1

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. XVII from the album "Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads" (1886)
Size
Image/paper: 23.2 × 29.1 cm (9 3/16 × 11 1/2 in.); Album page: 28.5 × 41.1 cm (11 1/4 × 16 3/16 in.)
Place
England
Period
19th century
Main colour
Grey · lightness 56, colourfulness 4

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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