Victorian Friendship Greeting Card

This series of Victorian inspired cards, are adorned with a collage of Pierre-Joseph Redouté blooms, and authentic Victorian greeting card poems.

Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759 – 1840) was a Belgian painter an botanist who was a court painter to both Marie Antoinette, and Empress Joséphine Bonaparte. He is considered to be the greatest botanical illustrator of all time, having produced 2,100 plates depicting over 1,800 species of plants. Among his most celebrated works are Les Roses (3 vols), Les Liliacées (8 vols), and Choix des plus belles fleurs (The most beautiful flowers).

Narcissus: annunciation, appreciation, beauty, chivalry, contentment, egotism, self-love, faith, forgiveness, honesty, hope, inner beauty, love, new beginnings, rebirth, renewal, respect, sunshine, and vanity.

Early harbingers of spring, daffodils transform previously colorless landscapes with otherworldly yellow or white flowers. Symbolizing both fertility and death, the flower is sacred to Hades, and was said to grow along the banks of the river Styx in the Underworld.