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A work made of etching and engraving on heavy ivory laid paper.

The Pier with a Lamp, plate 15 from Imaginary Prisons

Giovanni Battista Piranesi · 1761

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Palette

Bone white
 47% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.3:1
Graphite
 19% of the image
Brown · text contrast 11.1:1
Sepia
 14% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.5:1
Taupe
 13% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.4:1
Stone
 4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.0:1
Putty
 3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.4:1

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

Details

Artist
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Italian, 1720-1778
Date
1761
Type
Print
Medium
Etching and engraving on heavy ivory laid paper
Size
Image: 40.8 × 54.7 cm (16 1/8 × 21 9/16 in.); Plate: 41.3 × 55.3 cm (16 5/16 × 21 13/16 in.); Sheet: 59 × 77.8 cm (23 1/4 × 30 11/16 in.)
Place
Italy
Period
18th century
Main colour
Brown · lightness 64, colourfulness 10

Art Institute of Chicago, The Wallace L. DeWolf and Joseph Brooks Fair Collections. 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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