Textile Design with Alternating Vertical Rows of Lozenges over a Background of Intersecting Diagonal Ribbons

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 over a background of intersecting diagonal ribbons of light tan color over a brown base. The intersecting sections of the ribbons are rendered with stipples of brown color. The lozenges are of white color.

Artist

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Date

1840

Medium

Gouache

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Museum Accession, transferred from the Library