Victorian Valentine Cherubs & Doves Greeting Card

The two chubby cherubs with wings are the real story here—they're engaged in what can only be described as an aggressively intimate nose-to-nose embrace, arms wrapped around each other with the kind of intensity usually reserved for hostage situations, while clutching a bouquet of daisies as if flowers make any of this less alarming. Two doves — presumably traumatized witnesses — circle a stack of blank letters nearby, because apparently even the mail delivery system has been conscripted into this cherub agenda. The whole scene is rendered in a red and grey two-tone palette that gives it the aesthetic of a Victorian fever dream, and the cursive 'To my Valentine' scrawled at the bottom confirms that yes, someone named Emma S. thought this was the appropriate way to express romantic interest.