Textile Design with Alternating Lozenges over a Striped 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 of alternating lozenges over a striped background of vertical lines of dark reddish-brown color over a light tan ground. The lozenges are of light tan color and framed by a border rendered with dark reddish-brown stipples. The lozenges are adorned with two smaller lozenges of different sizes, one over the other: the smallest lozenge is colored with white and the other one is colored with red.

Artist

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Date

1840

Medium

Gouache

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Museum Accession, transferred from the Library