Trepanning a Recruit

George Morland · c. 1790

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Taupe
34% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.9:1

Charcoal
31% of the image
Black · text contrast 14.8:1

Iron
26% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.4:1

Fawn
5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.5:1

Pale stone
3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.5:1

Cinnamon
2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.4:1

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

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Artist: George Morland
Date: c. 1790
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 54 × 43.5 cm (21 1/4 × 17 1/8 in.); Framed: 71.5 × 62 × 9.6 cm (28 1/8 × 24 3/8 × 3 3/4 in.)
Place: England
Period: 18th century
Themes: Mothers and children · Music and dance
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 35, colourfulness 10

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Clarke. 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

Trepanning a Recruit

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