Textile Design with Horizontal Rows of Undulating Garlands and Zig-Zagging Stiff Branches Flanked by Rosettes of Pearls Over a Stippled Background

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

1840 · Gouache · Drawings and Prints

Textile Design with Horizontal Rows of Undulating Garlands and Zig-Zagging Stiff Branches Flanked by Rosettes of Pearls Over a Stippled Background — 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 of a horizontal rows of undulating garlands rendered with dark reddish-brown stipples with zig-zagging stiff branches of light tan color with red outlines, flanked with alternating rosettes of eight small pearls of white color, over a background of light tan color with dark reddish-brown stipples.

Artist: Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century
Date: 1840
Medium: Gouache
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library