Textile Design with Alternating Vertical Strips of Undulating Honeycomb Pattern with Branch Offsets and Undulating Garlands of Pearls with Alternating Offsetting Wheat Ears and Pairs of Circles

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 undulating garlands of honeycomb pattern of light tan color over a dark reddish-brown base with offsetting branches of dark reddish-brown color and undulating garlands of pearls with alternating offsetting wheat ears and pairs of circles over a bakcground of light tan color with dark-reddish brown stipples. The pearls and wheat ears are of white color; the circles are of purple, orange and green color.

Artist

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Date

1840

Medium

Gouache

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Museum Accession, transferred from the Library