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Wrack

William Henry Fox Talbot · 1839

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Palette

Chalk
 37% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.7:1
Taupe
 28% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.4:1
Warm grey
 22% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.8:1
Silver
 9% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.5:1
Chestnut
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.4:1
Dark chocolate
 2% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.0:1

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
William Henry Fox Talbot
British, Dorset 1800–1877 Lacock
Date
1839
Type
Photograph
Medium
Salted paper print
Size
22 x 17.5 cm (8 11/16 x 6 7/8 in.), irregularly trimmed
Period
19th century
Main colour
Brown · lightness 63, colourfulness 7

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1936. 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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