Textile Design with Alternating Vertical Rows of Undulating Stylized Wheat Ears and Undulating Strips of Pearls with Alternating Offsetting Wheat Ears and Lens Shapes

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

1840 · Gouache · Drawings and Prints

Textile Design with Alternating Vertical Rows of Undulating Stylized Wheat Ears and Undulating Strips of Pearls with Alternating Offsetting Wheat Ears and Lens Shapes — Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

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 undulating stylized wheat ears of light tan color with offsets of light reddish-brown color and undulating strips of pearls with alternating offsetting wheat ears and lens shapes over stylized palm leaves of light tan color with dark reddish-brown stipples. The pearls and wheat ears are of white color and the lens shapes are of orange and blue color with red outlines.

Artist: Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century
Date: 1840
Medium: Gouache
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library