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[Newhaven Fishwives] by Hill and Adamson

[Newhaven Fishwives]

Hill and Adamson · ca. 1845

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Palette

Sepia
 49% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.3:1
Umber
 22% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.1:1
Taupe
 14% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.8:1
Parchment
 7% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.2:1
Fawn
 6% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.9:1
Putty
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.9:1

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
Hill and Adamson
British, active 1843–1848
Date
ca. 1845
Type
Photograph
Medium
Salted paper print from paper negative
Size
29.5 x 21.7 cm (11 5/8 x 8 9/16 in.)
Period
19th century
Themes
Portraits
Main colour
Brown · lightness 40, colourfulness 15

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Rubel Collection, Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace, Harriette and Noel Levine, and Alexandra R. Marshall Gifts, 1997. 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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