Copy of the Goods of Montpellier
1809
- Medium
- Cotton, plain weave; block printed and copperplate printed; total of swatches: 1650 swatches
- Classification
- Book
- 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.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Textiles
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Chauncey B. Borland
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
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.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
