Textile Design with Alternating Vertical Stripes of Lozenges with Pearls in the Vertices and Abstract Organic Honeycomb Structures with Branch Offshoots

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 of lozenges adorned with three pearls on each vertex over a light tan ground with stipples of dark reddish-brown color, and an abstract pattern of an organic honeycomb structure with branch offshoots of light tan color over a dark reddish-brown base with offshoots. The lozenges are of purple and orange color and have an outline of dark red color. The pearls are of white color with outlines of black color and some containing a black dot in the center.

Artist

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Date

1840

Medium

Gouache

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Museum Accession, transferred from the Library