Textile Design with Undulating Vertical Strips of Squares Joined by Lens-Shaped Pearls over Undulating Stylized Palm Leaves Separated by Vertical Garlands of Branches

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 undulating vertical strips of squares joined by lens-shaped pearls over undulating stylized palm leaves separated by vertical garlands of branches of light tan color over a dark reddish-brown ground. The squares are of orange and purple color with outlines of red color and the pearls are of white color. The palm leaves are rendered with stipples of dark reddish-brown color 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