Textile Design with Undulating Horizontal Zig-Zagging Lines and Alternating Rows of Lozenges

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 undulating horizontal zig-zagging lines of light tan color with offsetting spikes of brown color and alternating rows of lozenges of white color over a background of light tan color with stipples of brown color.

Artist

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Date

1840

Medium

Gouache

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Museum Accession, transferred from the Library