Textile Design with Vertical Garlands of Stylized Leaves, Pearls and Ovals over a Background of Overlapping Scales

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 vertical garlands of stylized leaves and pearls with ovals over a strip of overlapping scales of light tan color with dark reddish-brown stipples. The leaves and pearls are colored with white; the ovals are colored alternatingly with green, orange, and purple, and outlined with red.

Artist

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Date

1840

Medium

Gouache

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Museum Accession, transferred from the Library