Textile Design with Vertical Ribbons Framed by Undulating Strips of Pearls and with a Zig-Zagging Strip of Pearls with Alternating Rosettes Separated by Vertical Strips 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 ribbons of light tan color framed by undulating strips of pearls and with a zig-zagging strip of pearls with alternating rosettes, separated by vertical strips of overlapping scales of light tan color with dark reddish-brown stipples. The pearls are colored with white; some of the pearls in the zig-zagging strip running along the ribbon are also outlined with red. The rosettes are colored alternatingly with orange, purple and green, and are outlined with white.

Artist

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Date

1840

Medium

Gouache

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Museum Accession, transferred from the Library