Victorian Valentine Card: Purple Cherub Girl with Violets

The card's message — a grown adult prostrating themselves before a toddler in a hat the size of a satellite dish — contradicts its supposedly romantic intent, as the verse 'At thy dainty little feet / I lay my homage low, / Deign with a loving thought to meet / One who for thee doth glow' is, clinically speaking, deeply in need of a wellness check. Draped head-to-toe in an aggressively purple ensemble with an enormous ruffled bonnet, puff-sleeved dress, matching shoes, and a little drawstring bag dangling beside her, this blonde curly-haired child sits with one finger pensively raised to her lips, clutching a bouquet of dark violets like she's contemplating whether to accept your devotion or have you removed from the premises. The child's expression, finger to lips, white lace-trimmed bloomers peeking out beneath the dress, suggests she has heard this kind of desperate Victorian groveling before and remains, as always, entirely unimpressed.