Textile Design with a Checked Pattern Decorated with Octagons and Squares over a Stippled Background

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 a checked pattern of ribbons of light tan color with a zig-zagging line of dark reddish-brown color running through the middle, over a light tan ground with stipples of dark reddish-brown color. The intersections of the ribbons are decorated alternatingly with octagons and squares. The octagons are colored alternatingly with orange, purple and green, and outlined with red and black. The squares are colored with white and outlined with black.

Artist

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Date

1840

Medium

Gouache

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Museum Accession, transferred from the Library