Textile Design with Alternating Vertical Rows of Pearls and Lens Shapes over a Stippled Background

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 pearls of white color and lens shapes of light tan color with stippled borders of dark reddish-brown color over a dotted background with dark reddish-brown stipples 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