Textile Design with Horizontal Garlands of Alternating Palmettes Decorated with Trefoils of Pearls

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 horizontal garlads of alternating palmettes of light tan color with brown stipples decorated with trefoils of pearls over a brown ground.

Artist

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Date

1840

Medium

Gouache

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Museum Accession, transferred from the Library