Each year Art Herstory offers a new holiday card design, which features (of course!) a work by a woman artist. This year, with our seventh holiday card, we expand on the botanical art theme. The 2025 holiday card reproduces “Calla and Poincetha” by American illustrator Clarissa Munger Badger (1806–1889).
The art source is a digital art file of a color plate from Badger’s book Floral Belles from the Green-house and Garden, published by C. Scribner & Co., 1867. We do not know where the artwork (a watercolor, perhaps?) is held, assuming it still exists. Art Herstory is grateful to Biodiversity Heritage Library for making the digital art file of the book plate accessible, from a copy of the book held by Smithsonian Libraries and Archives.
Art Herstory holiday cards are larger than Art Herstory note cards. They are A7 format (5×7″). They are available for sale in a 10-pack with holiday-red envelopes, or as individual cards (with matching envelopes) in an eco-friendly clear sleeve. The inside sentiment reads “Season’s Greetings.”
New from Art Herstory: A mixed 12-pack!
And this year, for the first time, Art Herstory offers a mixed boxed set of 12 botanical holiday cards! This set includes four cards each of three cards that reproduce Christmas flowers/plants: this year’s card Poinsettia and Calla Lily, with E. F. Seedling Amaryllis 1819 and American holly / Ilex opaca.
To order Art Herstory holiday cards online, visit the online Art Herstory Shop, or our Etsy store.
Art Herstory Christmas cards from previous years are still available:
Madonna and Child, by Marianne Stokes
Christmas Roses, by Florence Westwood Whitfield
American holly / Ilex opaca, by Mary Morris Vaux Walcott (American, 1860–1940)
The Nativity of Christ, by Orsola Maddalena Caccia (Italian, 1596–1676)
Adoration of the Magi, by Artemisia Gentileschi (Italian, 1593–c.1654)
E. F. Seedling Amaryllis 1819, by Priscilla Susan Bury (British, 1799–1872)
Posts about Art Herstory Cards:
The Art Herstory 2024 Holiday Card: Madonna and Child, c. 1909
The Art Herstory 2023 Holiday Card: Christmas Roses
Announcing Art Herstory’s 2022 Holiday Card: American Holly
New Art Herstory Note Card Designs for 2025
Art Herstory posts about historical women botanical illustrators:
Barbara Regina Dietzsch: Enlightened Flower Painter, by Andaleeb Badiee Banta
Women and the Art of Flower Painting, by Ariane van Suchtelen
Alida Withoos: Creator of beauty and of visual knowledge, by Catherine Powell
The Protofeminist Insects of Giovanna Garzoni and Maria Sibylla Merian, by Emma Steinkraus
Women in Zoological Art and Illustration, by Ann Sylph, Librarian of the Zoological Society of London
Madeleine Françoise Basseporte’s Hyacinths at the French Court, by Mary Creed
Curiosity and the Caterpillar: Maria Sibylla Merian’s Artistic Entomology, by Kay Etheridge
