Textile Design with a Background of Stripes Framed by Garlands of Branches and Alternating Vertical Strings of Pearls

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

1840 · Gouache · Drawings and Prints

Textile Design with a Background of Stripes Framed by Garlands of Branches and Alternating Vertical Strings of Pearls — Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

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 background of horizontal stripes of light tan and dark reddish-brown color, framed by garlands of branches, and alternating vertical strings of nine pearls that touch. 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