Textile Design with Vertical Undulating Ribbons Framed by Garlands of Stylized Leaves and with Pearls and Dots Running Along the Middle and with Offsetting Branches with Stylized Leaves Separated by Undulating Strips of Alternating 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 vertical undulating ribbons of light tan color framed by garlands of stylized leaves and with a strip of stipples of dark reddish-brown color with pearls and dots running along the center of the ribbon, and with offsetting branches with stylized leaves rendered with stipples of dark reddish-brown color, separated by undulating strips of alternating pearls of the size of those in the garlands and smaller ones. The larger pearls are colored alternatingly with orange, purple, and green, and outlined with red; the smaller pearls are colored with white. The leaves framing the ribbon are of white color, and the dots running through the middle are of light tan color. The background is of light tan color 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