Textile Design with Undulating Vertical Rows of Overlapping Scales and Curved Strips of 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 undulating vertical rows of overlapping scales of light tan color with stipples of dark reddish-brown color over which alternating curved strips of seven pearls of white color stand out.

Artist

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Date

1840

Medium

Gouache

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Museum Accession, transferred from the Library