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Bird's Nest and Ferns

Fidelia Bridges · 1863

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Palette

Soot
 60% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.0:1
Bistre
 30% of the image
Black · text contrast 14.1:1
Dark olive
 4% of the image
Green · text contrast 11.0:1
Olive brown
 2% of the image
Green · text contrast 8.5:1
Olive
 2% of the image
Green · text contrast 5.9:1
Sepia
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.8:1

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
Fidelia Bridges
American, 1834–1923
Date
1863
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on panel
Size
20 × 16.8 cm (7 7/8 × 6 5/8 in.)
Place
United States
Period
Realism · 19th century
Themes
Landscapes · Still life · Birds
Main colour
Black · lightness 15, colourfulness 6

Art Institute of Chicago, Purchased with funds provided by Charles C. Haffner III. 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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