Textile Design with Alternating Strips of Groups of Three Pearls Framed by Undulating Stippled Garlands

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 alternating strips of groups of three pearls framed by alternating vertical undulating garlands stippled with brown color over a base of dark greenish-cream color. The pearls are colored with white.

Artist

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Date

1840

Medium

Gouache

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Museum Accession, transferred from the Library