Textile Design with Alternating Rows of Palmettes Decorated with Lens Shapes Bordered with Pearls Separated By Undulating Vertical Scrolls of Ribbons

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 vertical rows of palmettes rendered with stipples of dark reddish-brown color decorated with two vertical lens-shapes of different sizes bordered by pearls, separated by vertical undulating scrolls of ribbons of light tan color over a light tan background with stipples of dark reddish-brown color. The larger lenses are of dark red color and the smaller lenses are of black color. The pearls are of white color with black outlines.

Artist

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Date

1840

Medium

Gouache

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Museum Accession, transferred from the Library