Medinet-Habu

John Beasley Greene · 1854

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Sepia
42% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.6:1

Dark chocolate
19% of the image
Black · text contrast 14.9:1

Taupe
17% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.5:1

Lamp black
14% of the image
Black · text contrast 19.0:1

Warm grey
6% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.9:1

Mushroom
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.6:1

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Artist: John Beasley Greene
American, born France, Le Havre 1832–1856 Cairo, Egypt
Date: 1854
Type: Photograph
Medium: Salted paper print from paper negative
Size: 23.4 x 30.1 cm (9 3/16 x 11 7/8 in.)
Period: 19th century
Main colour: Brown · lightness 28, colourfulness 10

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, The Howard Gilman Foundation Gift, 1989. 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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