Values in Augustus Edwin Mulready rest in the mid-range - neither dramatically lit nor steeped in shadow. Augustus Edwin Mulready balances warm and cool with remarkable evenness, giving the composition its characteristic vibrancy. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. The most saturated colour, #8F7D54, is reserved to 6.9% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. Spanning 51 units on the value axis, the palette achieves the balance between tonal flatness and fragmentation. This is palette 7 of Augustus Edwin Mulready's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.