Victorian Christmas Greeting Card - Poinsettia Holly Design

There's a frantic energy to this design that suggests someone took a perfectly normal winter landscape and decided it absolutely *had* to live inside an open book floating at a jaunty diagonal angle. The book's pages are fanned out with red-striped edges while 'Christmas Greetings' is scrawled across them in gold script as if the book itself is shouting at you. Flanking this unhinged literary centerpiece is an aggressively red poinsettia on the left and a holly branch dripping with berries on the right—because subtlety was simply not available in the Victorian era. The whole fever dream sits against a gradient of sickly yellow-green that suggests the artist was either pioneering Impressionism or deeply unwell.