Textile Design with a Chevron Base Pattern and Vertical Strips of Lozenges and Pearls

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

1840 · Gouache · Drawings and Prints

Rectangular strip of paper with a textile design from a group, dated 1840, made in Mulhouse, Alsace which was an important nineteenth-century center for textile production in the Haut-Rhin region of France. The design is made up out of a chevron base pattern in a dark reddish-brown color. On top of this pattern vertical strips made up out of lozenges and pearls run across the design. Every other strip is colored: the pearls in white and the lozenges in green, purple and orange.

Artist

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Date

1840

Medium

Gouache

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Museum Accession, transferred from the Library