Textile Design with Interlacing Strips of Pearls over Interlacing Garlands of Dots and Rosettes 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 interlacing strips of pearls over interlacing garlands of dots of light tan color and rosettes and with offsetting shades of dark reddish-brown color, over a light tan ground with stipples of dark reddish-brown color. The pearls are of white color. The rosettes have five petals and are of light tan 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