Textile Design with Vertical Undulating Garlands of Pearls Separated by Vertical Strips of Vermicular Pattern over a Stippled Background

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

1840 · Gouache · Drawings and Prints

Textile Design with Vertical Undulating Garlands of Pearls Separated by Vertical Strips of Vermicular Pattern over a Stippled 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 vertical undulating garlands of pearls of white color over a black ground, separated by vertical strips of a vermicular pattern of red color with offsetting branches over a light tan ground with stipples of dark reddish-brown color.

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