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A work made of salted paper print, from the album "photographs taken in the crimea" (1856).

General Bosquet and Captain Dampière

Roger Fenton · 1855

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Palette

Linen
 50% of the image
Green · text contrast 13.4:1
Iron
 33% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.9:1
Taupe
 7% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.0:1
Putty
 3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.3:1
Stone
 3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.1:1
Warm grey
 3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.5:1

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
Roger Fenton
English, 1819–1869
Date
1855
Type
Photograph
Medium
Salted paper print, from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)
Size
Image/paper: 19.6 × 15.4 cm (7 3/4 × 6 1/8 in.); Mount: 58.9 × 42.5 cm (23 1/4 × 16 3/4 in.)
Place
England
Period
19th century
Main colour
Green · lightness 65, colourfulness 9

Art Institute of Chicago, Hugh Edwards Photography and Media Purchase 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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