Textile Design with Interlacing Branches and Alternating Rows of Rosettes over a Background with an Interlaced Pattern

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

1840 · Gouache · Drawings and Prints

Textile Design with Interlacing Branches and Alternating Rows of Rosettes over a Background with an Interlaced Pattern — 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 interlacing branches of light tan color with dark red shades and alternating rows of rosettes of five petals of white color over a background with an interlaced pattern rendered with stipples of dark reddish-brown color over a light tan base.

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