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Two Strings to Your Bow by Thomas Rowlandson

Two Strings to Your Bow

Thomas Rowlandson · 1800

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Palette

Stone
 70% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.4:1
Biscuit
 13% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.6:1
Old gold
 7% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.8:1
Blue-grey
 4% of the image
Teal · text contrast 5.7:1
Tan
 3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.3:1
Dusty rose
 3% of the image
Pink · text contrast 4.7:1

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 Rowlandson
1756–1827
Date
1800
Type
Print
Medium
hand-colored etching
Size
sheet: 22.1 × 28.2 cm (8 11/16 × 11 1/8 in.)
Place
British
Period
18th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 64, colourfulness 18

National Gallery of Art, Washington, Rosenwald Collection. Museum record. Public domain. United States: National Gallery of Art marks it open access (published_images.openaccess = 1: public domain, CC0). Europe: Artist died 1827: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1898. Last checked 2026-10-31 (published_images.openaccess = 1: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

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