Textile Design with Alternating Vertical Zig-Zagging Strips and Pearls

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

1840 · Gouache · Drawings and Prints

Rectangular sheet 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 of alternating vertical strips: one is a vertical zig-zagging line of light tan color and dark red outlines, the other a zig-zagging strip of pearls over a honeycomb pattern of light tan color with offsetting thorns of dark reddish-brown color, over a light tan base with stipples of dark reddish-brown color. The pearls are colored with white.

Artist

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Date

1840

Medium

Gouache

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Museum Accession, transferred from the Library