Botanical illustration of a pompon rose stem with two deep red blooms, small buds and blue-green leaves on a cream background.

The words HAPPY BIRTHDAY in spaced red capitals on a cream background. — Inside: four of your photos stand up below this, with your note.

Pompon Rose (Redouté)

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Pierre-Joseph Redouté's pompon rose, a miniature rose grown in French gardens since the 1600s, opens in deep red blooms above a simple Happy Birthday inside. Known as the Raphael of flowers, Redouté painted for Marie Antoinette and the Empress Joséphine, and this plate comes from his book Les Roses. For someone who loves flowers.

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Inside, it says

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

On the back

From the great botanical books of the 1700s to the 1900s / POMPON ROSE / Rosa × centifolia 'Pomponia' / A miniature rose with flowers like little pompons, grown in French gardens since the 1600s. Its leaves are as small as its flowers, so the whole bush stays neat and low. / Les Roses, 1817–1824 / By Pierre-Joseph Redouté, the Raphael of flowers, who painted for Marie Antoinette and the Empress Joséphine. Printed in colour and finished by hand.

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