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A work made of watercolor, and pen and blue, red and gray inks, on cream wove paper.

View in the St. Gotthard Pass, Switzerland

J. M. W. Turner · 1842

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Palette

Ivory
 54% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.2:1
Parchment
 23% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.9:1
Putty
 12% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.3:1
Sand
 5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.1:1
Stone
 4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.5:1
Fawn
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.8:1

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
J. M. W. Turner
English, 1775-1851
Date
1842
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Watercolor, and pen and blue, red and gray inks, on cream wove paper
Size
24.2 × 34.1 cm (9 9/16 × 13 7/16 in.)
Place
England
Period
18th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 81, colourfulness 17

Art Institute of Chicago, Olivia Shaler Swan Memorial 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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