Botanical painting of a white damask rose with open white blossoms, pink buds, green leaves, a thorny stem and a red rose hip on cream.

The words 'With Sympathy' in spaced green capital letters on a cream background. — Inside: four of your photos stand up below this, with your note.

White Damask Rose (Redouté)

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Pierre-Joseph Redouté's white damask rose, from his book Les Roses, opens quietly above the simple words With Sympathy. Redouté, called the Raphael of flowers, painted for Marie Antoinette and the Empress Joséphine, and the white rose has long stood for remembrance and quiet love. For someone who is grieving.

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Inside, it says

WITH SYMPATHY

On the back

From the great botanical books of the 1700s to the 1900s / WHITE DAMASK ROSE / Rosa × damascena / Damask roses came west from the Middle East, and their petals give rose oil and rose water. A white rose has long stood for remembrance and quiet love. / 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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