Textile Design with Vertical Vermicular Strips of Pearls Separated by Chevron Stripes

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 vertical vermicular strips of pearls separated by chevron stripes over a light tan base with brown stipples. The pearls are of white color. The chevrons are colored alternatingly in orange and black and have red outlines.

Artist

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Date

1840

Medium

Gouache

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Museum Accession, transferred from the Library