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Nocturne (Nocturne: The Thames at Battersea) by James McNeill Whistler

Nocturne (Nocturne: The Thames at Battersea)

James McNeill Whistler · 1878

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Palette

Warm grey
 24% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.3:1
Ash
 24% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.0:1
Smoke
 21% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.1:1
Silver
 21% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.6:1
Chalk
 7% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.8:1
Oyster
 2% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.4:1

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
James McNeill Whistler
American, Lowell, Massachusetts 1834–1903 London
Date
1878
Type
Print
Medium
Lithotint with scraping on a prepared half-tint ground, printed in soft gray-black ink on pale blue laid chine mounted on ivory wove plate paper; second state of two (Chicago)
Size
Image: 6 3/4 × 10 3/16 in. (17.1 × 25.9 cm) Sheet: 13 1/2 × 19 5/16 in. (34.3 × 49 cm)
Period
19th century
Themes
Boats and ships · Rivers and lakes · Night and moonlight
Main colour
Grey · lightness 63, colourfulness 7

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917. 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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