Textile Design with Alternating Vertical Rows of Rosettes with Quatrefoil Shapes in the Center Framed by Undulating Vertical Garlands

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

1840 · Gouache · Drawings and Prints

Textile Design with Alternating Vertical Rows of Rosettes with Quatrefoil Shapes in the Center Framed by Undulating Vertical Garlands — 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 alternating vertical rows of rosettes made with eight petals of dark reddish-brown color with quatrefoil shapes of white color in the center, framed by undulating vertical garlands rendered with stipples of dark reddish-brown color over a light tan ground.

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