Cherub Cupid Valentine Card Victorian Era Floral Design

According to the card's narrative, Cupid—bow slung over his shoulder, blue ribbon tied around his quiver of arrows, a basket of roses and red hearts spilled at his feet—has pressed his chubby little hand to his ear and plastered himself against a doorframe like a Victorian baby doing reconnaissance, 'listening for the echo of love's old plea divine.' This is a remarkably poetic way of describing a winged toddler conducting surveillance outside a closed door. The combination of the conspiratorial lean, the smug rosy smirk, and the scattered Valentine offerings suggests less 'messenger of love' and more 'tiny unhinged stalker who bought flowers as a cover story.' Deeply unnerving by modern standards; presumably charming in 1910.