Textile Design with Alternating Stylized Leaves with Rosettes over a Background of a Honeycomb Pattern with 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 alternating stylized leaves of light tan color with stipples of dark reddish-brown color with two rosettes of four petals over a background of a honeycomb pattern of light tan color over a dark reddish-brown base decorated with scattered pearls. The rosettes are colored with white and framed with red; the pearls are colored with red.

Artist

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Date

1840

Medium

Gouache

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Museum Accession, transferred from the Library