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The Covenant

Follower of John Martin · c. 1843

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Palette

Lamp black
 67% of the image
Black · text contrast 19.7:1
Graphite
 14% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.8:1
Honey
 7% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.1:1
Taupe
 5% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.4:1
Walnut
 4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 13.0:1
Cinnamon
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.5:1

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
Follower of John Martin
Date
c. 1843
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
71 × 90.5 cm (28 × 35 5/8 in.); Framed: 86.4 × 106.7 × 10.2 cm (34 × 42 × 4 in.)
Place
England
Period
19th century
Themes
Mountains · Bible stories and saints
Main colour
Black · lightness 14, colourfulness 7

Art Institute of Chicago, A. A. McKay Fund. 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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