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The Entombment by Edward Burne-Jones

The Entombment

Edward Burne-Jones · 1879

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Palette

Iron
 43% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.4:1
Smoke
 27% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.3:1
Warm grey
 16% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.3:1
Stone
 7% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.9:1
Linen
 4% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.7:1
Pale stone
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.4:1

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

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Artist
Edward Burne-Jones
British, Birmingham 1833–1898 Fulham
Date
1879
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Green, blue, brown and touches of reddish bodycolor, heightened with white gouache (bodycolor)
Size
12 x 18-3/4 in. (30.5 x 47.6 cm)
Period
19th century
Main colour
Grey · lightness 47, colourfulness 8

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Darwin S. Morse, 1963. 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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