A pink Royal French Rose in full bloom with buds and dark green leaves, a vintage botanical painting on cream.
Spaced red-brown capitals reading Congratulations on your engagement on a cream background.
Inside: four of your photos stand up below this, with your note.

No. 56 of 100 · The Botanical Series

Royal French Rose

Pictures by Pierre-Joseph Redouté

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Redouté's Royal French Rose opens in soft layers of pink above the words Congratulations on your engagement. Known as the Raphael of flowers, Redouté painted for Marie Antoinette and the Empress Joséphine, and his roses were printed in colour and finished by hand. For a newly engaged couple.

Add four of your own photos and your own words; we print the card in the US and post it for you.

Inside, it says

CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR ENGAGEMENT

On the back

From the great botanical books of the 1700s to the 1900s / ROYAL FRENCH ROSE / Rosa gallica 'Regalis' / Gallica roses are the oldest garden roses of Europe, grown by the Romans and by medieval monks for medicine. This royal one opens into soft layers of pink. / 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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