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The Town on the Hill, New Almaden by Carleton Watkins

The Town on the Hill, New Almaden

Carleton Watkins · 1863

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Palette

Oyster
 49% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.2:1
Coffee
 16% of the image
Black · text contrast 11.3:1
Ash
 14% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.5:1
Smoke
 9% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.9:1
Taupe
 7% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.6:1
Chalk
 6% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 16.0:1

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
1863
Type
Photograph
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Size
39.7 x 52.3 cm (15 5/8 x 20 9/16 in.)
Period
19th century
Themes
Landscapes
Main colour
White & cream · lightness 66, colourfulness 9

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 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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