South View of Christ Church, from the Meadows

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK · 45 x 31.5 cm

Gleaming Tawny
Gleaming Bright and polished - high-key, often warm, suggesting reflective or luminous surfaces.
Tawny Warm orange-brown - a traditional term for the color of tanned leather or lion fur.
South View of Christ Church, from the Meadows by J.M.W. Turner

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
67.7
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
20.0
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
8.3
cool
Dominant Hue
#AFA583 yellow

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 94°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 67.7
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 20.0
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 67.7 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"South View of Christ Church, from the Meadows" (1798) reads as a lit, mid-saturation warm palette built around Amber and Cream. The body of the palette stays restrained while smaller hits of color do the work. A low-prevalence accent at #3B291D pulls the eye.

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