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Cape Horn near Celilo

Carleton Watkins · 1867

Palette

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

1867

Type

Photograph

Medium

Albumen silver print from glass negative

Size

Image: 40 x 52.4cm (15 3/4 x 20 5/8in.) Mount: 54.5 x 68.6 cm (21 7/16 x 27 in.)

Period

19th century

Themes

Landscapes

Main colour

Brown · lightness 54, colourfulness 10

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gilman Collection, Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2005. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's isPublicDomain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules