Textile Design with Undulating Horizontal Strips of Rosettes Framed by Undulating Horizontal Ribbon Strips

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 undulating horizontal strips of small rosettes, framed by undulating horizontal ribbon strips, over a dark reddish-brown ground with light tan stipples. The rosettes are of white color and bordered in black; the undulating bands are of light tan color and bordered in dark red.

Artist

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Date

1840

Medium

Gouache

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Museum Accession, transferred from the Library