Textile Design with an Interlacing Pattern of Circles with Pearls over a Stippled 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 up of an interlacing pattern of circles rendered with stipples of dark reddish-brown color with a pearl in the center, over a light tan ground with an interlacing pattern formed with stipples of dark reddish-brown color.

Artist

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Date

1840

Medium

Gouache

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Museum Accession, transferred from the Library