Mr. James Mackie

Samuel Lovett Waldo · 1830–40

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Palette

Lamp black
88% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.9:1

Dark olive
6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 12.0:1

Fawn
2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.1:1

Tan
2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.4:1

Pale stone
1% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.7:1

Sepia
1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.6:1

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: Samuel Lovett Waldo
William Jewett (American, 1792–1874)
Date: 1830–40
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 92.1 × 73.7 cm (36 1/4 × 29 in.)
Place: United States
Period: 19th century
Main colour: Black · lightness 12, colourfulness 5

Art Institute of Chicago, Friends of American Art Collection. 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

Mr. James Mackie

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