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Julia Margaret Cameron · 1867

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Palette

Charcoal
68% of the image
Black · text contrast 13.0:1

Iron
20% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.4:1

Taupe
5% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.1:1

Lamp black
3% of the image
Black · text contrast 20.4:1

Warm grey
3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.4:1

Stone
1% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.3:1

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: Julia Margaret Cameron
British (born India), Calcutta 1815–1879 Kalutara, Ceylon
Date: 1867
Type: Photograph
Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
Size: 27.4 x 20.6 cm (10 13/16 x 8 1/8 in.)
Period: 19th century
Themes: Portraits
Main colour: Black · lightness 25, colourfulness 5

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1996. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's isPublicDomain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules