Textile Design with Alternating Vertical Rows of Shuttle Shapes and Pearls Framed by Interlacing Garlands of Branches

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 alternating vertical rows of shuttle shapes surrounded by 16 pearls, framed by interlacing garlands of branches of light tan color with offsetting branches rendered with stipples of dark reddish-brown color over a light tan ground with stipples of dark reddish-brown color. The shuttle shapes are colored alternatingly with green, yellow, and pink, and have one stripe of red color and one stripe of black color on each end. 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