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Grey and Silver: Old Battersea Reach

Grey and Silver: Old Battersea Reach

James McNeill Whistler · 1863

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Palette

Stone
42% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.8:1

Pale stone
32% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.6:1

Taupe
11% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.7:1

Sepia
8% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.8:1

Raw umber
5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.1:1

Umber
2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.7:1

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: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1863
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 50.8 × 68.6 cm (20 × 27 in.)
Place: London
Period: Impressionism · Early Modernism · 19th century
Themes: Landscapes
Main colour: Grey · lightness 58, colourfulness 11

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Honoré and Potter Palmer. 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