Rama Releases the Demon Spies Shuka and Sarana: Folio from the Siege of Lanka series

Manaku · ca. 1725

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Raw umber
31% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.4:1

Dark ochre
30% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.9:1

Iron
22% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.4:1

Brick
9% of the image
Red · text contrast 6.0:1

Bone white
6% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 16.7:1

Pewter
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.1:1

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: Manaku
Indian, active ca. 1725–60
Date: ca. 1725
Type: Painting
Medium: Opaque watercolor, ink and gold on paper
Size: Image: 22 1/4 × 31 1/4 in. (56.5 × 79.4 cm) Sheet: 23 1/2 × 32 3/4 in. (59.7 × 83.2 cm)
Place: India, Guler, Himachal Pradesh
Period: 18th century
Main colour: Brown · lightness 48, colourfulness 25

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1919. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's isPublicDomain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

Rama Releases the Demon Spies Shuka and Sarana: Folio from the Siege of Lanka series

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