View over Town at Sunset: a Cemetery in the Foreground

British Museum, London, UK · 19 x 14 cm

Soft Calico
Soft Low-contrast, gentle chroma - mid-key values and low saturation, approachable and calm.
Calico Warm speckled neutral - the color of unbleached cotton, mottled and soft.
View over Town at Sunset: a Cemetery in the Foreground by J.M.W. Turner

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
60.6
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
13.6
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
10.6
cool
Dominant Hue
#A38D84 orange

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 51°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 60.6
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 13.6
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 60.6 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"View over Town at Sunset: a Cemetery in the Foreground" (1832) reads as a mid, muted-saturation warm palette built around Warm Grey and Beige. Color weight is distributed evenly across the top three swatches. A low-prevalence accent at #F4F3C9 pulls the eye.

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