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View on the Columbia, Cascades by Carleton Watkins

View on the Columbia, Cascades

Carleton Watkins · 1867

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Palette

Pearl grey
 55% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.2:1
Dark chocolate
 18% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.2:1
Warm grey
 9% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.9:1
Sepia
 7% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.2:1
Lamp black
 6% of the image
Black · text contrast 20.4:1
Taupe
 5% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.4:1

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
Carleton Watkins
American, 1829–1916
Date
1867
Type
Photograph
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Size
40.0 x 52.4 cm (15 3/4 x 20 5/8 in.)
Period
19th century
Themes
Landscapes · Rivers and lakes
Main colour
White & cream · lightness 59, colourfulness 7

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Warner Communications Inc. Purchase Fund and Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1979. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's isPublicDomain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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