Textile Design with Abstract Bundles of Stylized Leaves and Pearls Over Dotted Background

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 abstract bundles of stylized leaves rendered with dark reddish-brown stipples over a light tan base with dark reddish-brown dots, with pearls and sylized three-leaf clovers of white color and with black outlines splattered over the background.

Artist

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Date

1840

Medium

Gouache

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Museum Accession, transferred from the Library