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Lindisfarne Castle, Holy Island, Northumberland by Thomas Girtin

Lindisfarne Castle, Holy Island, Northumberland

Thomas Girtin · 1796–97

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Palette

Pale stone
 42% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.7:1
Smoke
 23% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.9:1
Iron
 16% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.3:1
Stone
 8% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.9:1
Ash
 6% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.2:1
Bone white
 5% of the image
Green · text contrast 17.3:1

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
Thomas Girtin
British, London 1775–1802 London
Date
1796–97
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Watercolor and bodycolor (gouache)
Size
Sheet: 15 in. × 20 1/2 in. (38.1 × 52 cm)
Period
18th century
Themes
Landscapes
Main colour
Grey · lightness 61, colourfulness 8

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1906. 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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