Textile Design with a Vermicular Pattern Decorated with Pearls over a Background of Diagonal Stripes

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 a vermicular pattern rendered with stipples of dark reddish-brown color decorated with pearls of white color over a background with diagonal stripes stippled with dark reddish-brown color over a light tan base.

Artist

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Date

1840

Medium

Gouache

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Museum Accession, transferred from the Library