Textile Design with Alternating Horizontal Strips of Pearls 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 up of vertical stripes of dark brown color and light tan color with stipples of dark reddish-brown color. Over the background, alternating diagonal strips of five pearls stand out. The pearls are of white color.

Artist

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Date

1840

Medium

Gouache

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Museum Accession, transferred from the Library