Textile Design with an Undulating Ribbon with Honeycomb Pattern Offsetts and Pearls over a Stippled Background

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

1840 · Gouache · Drawings and Prints

Textile Design with an Undulating Ribbon with Honeycomb Pattern Offsetts and Pearls over a Stippled Background — Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

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 an undulating ribbon of light reddish-tan color framed by red outlines and an offsetting abstract honeycomb pattern and alternating rows of pairs of pearls and alternating rows of pairs of pearls over a light tan background with stipples of dark reddish-brown color. The pearls are of white color.

Artist: Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century
Date: 1840
Medium: Gouache
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library