Textile Design with Alternating Vertical Rows of Lozenges Decorated with Rosettes and Pearls Framed by Interlacing Garlands of Branches

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 vertical rows of lozenges of black color decorated with rosettes of five petals and pearls, framed by interlacing garlands of branches of light tan color with offsetting branches rendered with stipples of brown color over a ground of light tan color with stipples of brown color. The rosettes and the pearls are colored with white.

Artist

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Date

1840

Medium

Gouache

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Museum Accession, transferred from the Library