Textile Design with a Tartan Pattern Decorated with Stylized Clovers and Vertical Strips of Pearls

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 tartan pattern of dark reddish-brown color over a light tan base decorated with vertical rows of pearls and stylized clovers over the grid. The pearls are colored with white; the clovers are colored alternatingly with orange and purple.

Artist

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Date

1840

Medium

Gouache

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Museum Accession, transferred from the Library