Sea Shore (set design for Alice-in-Wonderland, 1915)

William Penhallow Henderson

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Spruce
36% of the image
Green · text contrast 7.5:1

Prussian blue
31% of the image
Blue · text contrast 10.4:1

Indigo
19% of the image
Blue · text contrast 12.4:1

Graphite
8% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.3:1

Ultramarine
4% of the image
Blue · text contrast 11.6:1

Navy
3% of the image
Blue · text contrast 11.3:1

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

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Artist: William Penhallow Henderson
1877–1943
Type: Drawing & watercolour
Medium: pastel
Themes: Seascapes and the coast
Main colour: Blue · lightness 29, colourfulness 26

Smithsonian American Art Museum. Museum record. Public domain. United States: Smithsonian Open Access marks it CC0 (descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access=CC0; online_media.media[0].usage.a). Europe: Artist died 1943: public domain in the EU since 1 January 2014. Last checked 2026-10-31 (Smithsonian Open Access usage is CC0: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

Sea Shore (set design for Alice-in-Wonderland, 1915)

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