Textile Design with Alternating Vertical Rows of Bunches of Large Paisley-Inspired Stylized Leaves and Branches with Pairs of Stylized Leaves Separated by Vertical 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 alternating vertical rows of bunches of three large paisley-inspired stylized leaves and three branches with pairs of small stylized leaves separated by vertical stripes of purple color over a ground of burgundy color. The paisley-inspired leaves have decorations of cream and black colored; two of them are of red color and one is of tan color. Two of the branches with pairs of stylized leaves are of black color, the other is of red color.

Artist

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Date

1840

Medium

Gouache

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Museum Accession, transferred from the Library