Textile Design with Vertical Garlands Bordered with Pearls Aligned to Form a Pattern of Semicircles Decorated with Oval-Shaped Rings Over a Glitched 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 consists of vertical garlands rendered with stipples of dark reddish-brown color over a light tan base, bordered with pearls aligned to form a pattern of semicircles, and decorated with oval-shaped rings, over a glitched background of light tan color over a dark reddish-brown base. The pearls are of white color, and the oval-shaped rings are of yellor, green and purple color and have red outlines.

Artist

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Date

1840

Medium

Gouache

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Museum Accession, transferred from the Library