France
Copy of the Goods of Montpellier
INV-6635
France1809
Copy of the Goods of Montpellier
France
textilebook
Date
1809
Medium
Cotton, plain weave; block printed and copperplate printed; total of swatches: 1650 swatches
Dimensions
Average length of swatches: H.: 2.5 cm (1 in.); Average width of swatches: W.: 4.5 cm (1 3/4 in.); Measurement of volume: 48.9 × 20 × 5.7 cm (19 1/4 × 7 7/8 × 2 1/4 in.); 51.3 × 21.6 × 8.5 cm (20 1/8 × 8 5/8 × 3 1/4 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Chauncey B. Borland
This book illustrates the huge variety of intricate patterns printed in vivid colors on cotton textiles for fashion during the early 19th century. The book comes from Montpellier, a town on the southern coast of France that is not known today as a center of textile printing. Thus these samples indicate how much more widespread the textile industry was in Europe during the Industrial Revolution. This book contains more than 1,600 small samples.
Also notable
Works in the same vein
