Textile Design with a Tiled Background of Alternating Rectangular Shapes Framed by Ribbons Decorated with Pearls

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 a tiled background of alternating rectangular shapes framed by ribbons of light tan color and red outlines decorated with groups of four pearls. The tiles are rendered with stipples of dark reddish-brown color over a light tan base. The pearls are colored with white.

Artist

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Date

1840

Medium

Gouache

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Museum Accession, transferred from the Library