Textile Design with Alternating Horizontal Seamless Strips of Lozenges and Stripes Decorated with Lozenges and Small Decorative Motifs that Resemble a Baguette-Cut Diamond

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

1840 · Gouache · Drawings and Prints

Textile Design with Alternating Horizontal Seamless Strips of Lozenges and Stripes Decorated with Lozenges and Small Decorative Motifs that Resemble a Baguette-Cut Diamond — Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

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 horizontal seamless strips of lozenges of light tan color with stipples of dark reddish-brown color and stripes of dark reddish-brown color decorated with lozenges of light tan color and decorative motifs of white color that resemble a baguette-cut diamond.

Artist: Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century
Date: 1840
Medium: Gouache
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library