Textile Design with Horizontal Strips of Ribbon Decorated with Circles and Pearls over a Glitched Background

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

1840 · Gouache · Drawings and Prints

Textile Design with Horizontal Strips of Ribbon Decorated with Circles and Pearls over a Glitched Background — 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 horizontal strips of ribbon of light tan color with stipples of dark reddish-brown color and red outlines decorated with pairs of circles flanked by five strips of pearls over a glitched background of light tan color over a dark reddish-brown base. The pairs of circles are colored with purple, orange and green, 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