Pierre-Joseph Redoute painted botanticals under the patronage of Marie Antoinette and Josephine Bonaparte. His watercolors of roses, lilies and other flowers at the Château de Malmaison earned him the nickname of "the Raphael of flowers." Jelaluddin Rumi was born in 1207 near the city of Balkh, on the eastern edge of the Persian empire. He came from a long line of Islamic jurists, theologians, and mystics; his father was the head of a dervish learning community in Turkey, a position which Rumi took over when his father died. Rumi is known best for his poetry and its exploration of the human and the divine, and the excerpts in these cards are taken from The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems translated by Coleman Barks. Cards are printed with archival inks on heavy cardstock paper and include matching envelopes, and purchase options include all 16 designs, the first half, and the second half.

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All 16 cards $48.00 USD Cards 1 - 8 $24.00 USD Cards 9 - 16 $24.00 USD

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lovely literary | scientific method spectacular | the artists' eye | take a hike | egyptian wisdom | please write | it takes a village | inside out | the language of flowers | the rose family | the world in black and white | it's a sign | designing women | snow in the sonora | ruminating on redoute | magnoliophyta | midsummer night's dream | fortune's wheel | western sea | pennell for your thoughts | seventeen syllables | new wave | the water sound