Design for a shawl with paisley leaves, exotic flowers, and garlands of flowers and leaves
Designed by Herault French
Published by Fleury Chavant French
Lithographed by Georges Schlatter 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 design for a shawl, presented at the industrial exposition of 1844, made up of large paisley leaves, colored with black, and exotic flowers framed by bell-shapes with scrolling branches, and interlacing branches with small, semi-abstract flowers and leaves, outlined with black, some fully colored with black and some rendered with thin, black lines. The design is executed with black ink on thin, light brown paper. The motifs in the design seem to have been inspired on Indian calicoes and were most likely intended for printed textiles or wallpapers, and were possibly manufactured with vivid colors.
