Textile Design with Alternating Vertical Garlands of Abstract Shapes Adorned with Pearls

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 garlands of abstract shape with shades made of dark reddish-brown stipples and adorned with groups of five pearls horizontally arranged over a light tan pattern with dark reddish-brown stipples. The pearls are 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