Textile Design with a Tartan Pattern and Stylized Daisies

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 lines of light tan color over a brown ground decorated with stylized daisies of white color. Every other vertical stripe is rendered with brown color and has offsetting highlights of light tan color with brown stipples.

Artist

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Date

1840

Medium

Gouache

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Museum Accession, transferred from the Library