Textile Design with Alternating Vertical Rows of Pearls Framed by Undulating Vertical Zig-Zagging Lines

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 rows of squared pearls framed by undulating vertical zig-zagging lines of light tan color over a dark reddish-brown ground. The square pearls are of white color and are positioned over highlights of light tan color with stipples of dark-reddish brown color.

Artist

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Date

1840

Medium

Gouache

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Museum Accession, transferred from the Library