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Dying for Love, or Captain Careless shot flying by a Girl of Fifteen, who Unexpectedly Popped her Head out of a Casement by Thomas Rowlandson

Dying for Love, or Captain Careless shot flying by a Girl of Fifteen, who Unexpectedly Popped her Head out of a Casement

Thomas Rowlandson · 1810

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Palette

Fawn
 35% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.1:1
Taupe
 23% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.8:1
Smoke
 22% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.4:1
Parchment
 17% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 12.0:1
Tan
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.2:1
Terracotta
 1% of the image
Red · text contrast 5.5:1

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
1810
Type
Print
Medium
hand-colored etching
Size
sheet (irreg.): 26.7 × 40.3 cm (10 1/2 × 15 7/8 in.)
Place
British
Period
19th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 58, colourfulness 19

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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