Victorian Cupid Valentine Card with Umbrella & Heart

A sepia-toned landscape frames a scene of pastoral calm, until you notice the subject: a barefoot, curly-haired cherub sitting against a tree in green drapery, protecting a large red heart from the rain with a dark umbrella. The angel gazes at the viewer with an expression that reads less 'tender valentine' and more 'I have made several questionable decisions today.' Apparently Victorian society agreed the ideal romantic envoy was a shoeless winged child clutching a heart like a stolen purse, and the existential fog of the background only solidifies the strangeness. 'To My Valentine' it says, as if any of this is normal.