Textile Design with Alternating Vertical and Horizontal Rows of Pearls Over a Vermicular Pattern Formed with Dotted Lines

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 a vermicular pattern formed with dotted lines of light tan color and outlined with dark reddish-brown stipples over a light tan ground with dark reddish-brown stipples, and alternating vertical and horizontal rows of pearls of white color with black outlines.

Artist

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Date

1840

Medium

Gouache

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Museum Accession, transferred from the Library