Textile Design with Alternating Vertical and Horizontal Rows of Pearls Over a Background of Alternating Horizontal Garlands of Abstract Bushes

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 and horizontal rows of pearls that stand out over a brackground of alternating horizontal garlands of abstract bushes of light brown color and shades rendered using dark reddish-brown stipples over a dark reddish-brown base. The pearls are of white color and have black outlines.

Artist

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Date

1840

Medium

Gouache

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Museum Accession, transferred from the Library