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Sabrina by Samuel Palmer

Sabrina

Samuel Palmer · 1856

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Palette

Tan
 33% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.6:1
Fawn
 31% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.5:1
Sepia
 21% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.8:1
Taupe
 5% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.1:1
Ivory
 5% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.8:1
Mushroom
 5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.9:1

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
Samuel Palmer
British, London 1805–1881 Redhill, Surrey
Date
1856
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Watercolor and gouache (bodycolor) over graphite, with reductive techniques, shell gold and gum arabic
Size
Sheet: 21 15/16 × 30 1/8 in. (55.7 × 76.5 cm)
Period
19th century
Themes
Landscapes
Main colour
Brown · lightness 56, colourfulness 21

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Acquisitions Fund and David T. Schiff Gift, 2017. 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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