Textile Design with a Paisley Motif Decorated with Branches with Small Stylized Flowers and Leaves Framed by Two Vertical Stripes

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

1840 · Gouache · Drawings and Prints

Textile Design with a Paisley Motif Decorated with Branches with Small Stylized Flowers and Leaves Framed by Two Vertical Stripes — 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 a paisley motif decorated with branches with small stylized flowers of red color and leaves framed by two vertical stripes of green color with black outlines over a dark burgundy ground. The upper part of the stripes is outlined with alternating squares of black and green color.

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