Textile Design with a Honeycomb Pattern of Garlands of Dots and Pearls over a Stippled 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 a honeycomb pattern made out of garlands of dots of light tan color with offsetting thorns of dark reddish-brown color over a light tan ground with stipples of dark reddish-brown color. Oval-shaped pearls of white color stand out in the center of the hexagons forming the pattern.

Artist

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Date

1840

Medium

Gouache

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Museum Accession, transferred from the Library