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A work made of oil on canvas.

Toning the Bell

Walter Shirlaw · 1874

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Palette

Lamp black
 55% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.7:1
Raw umber
 13% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.9:1
Silver
 11% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.3:1
Coffee
 11% of the image
Black · text contrast 11.1:1
Tan
 6% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.1:1
Smoke
 4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.7:1

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
Walter Shirlaw
Date
1874
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
101.6 × 76.2 cm (40 × 30 in.)
Place
Munich
Period
Realism · 19th century
Themes
Portraits
Main colour
Black · lightness 25, colourfulness 7

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

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