Textile Design with Alternating Diagonal Strings of Squares over a Striped 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 of vertical stripes of light tan color with stipples of dark brown color over a dark brown ground, decorated with alternating diagonal strings of three squares of white color joined at the vertices.

Artist

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Date

1840

Medium

Gouache

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Museum Accession, transferred from the Library