Textile Design with Alternating Pearls over an Abstrack Honeycomb Pattern

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 alternating pearls of red color with a white highlight surrounded by a light tan shade, over a background of an abstract honeycomb pattern rendered with dark reddish-brown stipples over a light tan base.

Artist

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Date

1840

Medium

Gouache

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Museum Accession, transferred from the Library