Textile design with large, exotic flowers and leaves, after 16th-century Indian curtain
Designed by Jules Dumas French
Lithographed by Georges Schlatter French
Published by Fleury Chavant French
Not on view
Page of book containing 185 leaves with a collection of lithographs, aquatints, engravings, and other media, with ornamental designs published by Fleury Chavant in Paris, part of the publication "Guide du Dessinateur de l'industrie: une macédoine de dessins variés , tels que fleurs, ornemens, etc. ... Ouvrage destiné aux fabricants et dessinateurs de soieries... et Papiers Peints..." This plate contains a textile design with vertical undulating branches with large stylized Indian flowers and leaves, and smaller, thinner branch offsets with small leaves and rosettes of different kinds, which fill the background of the design. The illustration was created after a 16th-century Indian textile, according to the inscription below the design. The design is executed with thin lines of black ink over thin, light brown paper.
