Textile Design with Alternating Vertical Rows of Lens Shapes and Rows of Ovals and Pearls Framed by Undulating Garlands of Pearls

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

1840 · Gouache · Drawings and Prints

Textile Design with Alternating Vertical Rows of Lens Shapes and Rows of Ovals and Pearls Framed by Undulating Garlands of Pearls — 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 alternating vertical rows of lens shapes and rows of ovals and pearls of red color framed by undulating garlands of pearls of white color over a light tan ground with dark reddish-brown stipples. The ovals are colored with purple, green and orange.

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