Textile Design with Alternating Horizontal Garlands of Branches with Abstract Swirls and Rosettes Flanked by Stylized Leaves and Framed by an Interlaced Ornamental Motif

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

1840 · Gouache · Drawings and Prints

Textile Design with Alternating Horizontal Garlands of Branches with Abstract Swirls and Rosettes Flanked by Stylized Leaves and Framed by an Interlaced Ornamental Motif — 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 alternating horizontal garlands of branches of light tan color with tan offsets with abstract swirls of white color with black outlines and stipples and rosettes of white color flanked by six stylized leaves and framed by an interlaced ornamental motif of white color with branch offsets of tan color, joined by three parallel stripes of tan color. Two strips are fully rendered, the repetitions left unfinished.

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