Victorian Easter Greeting Card with Children & Chicks

The girl's expression radiates the quiet fury of someone who did NOT agree to hold hands for this portrait — a sentiment that carries through the entire scene where two children, a boy in a brown outfit clutching a basket of colorful Easter eggs and a girl in a pink dress dragging a willow branch like she's about to start a séance, hold hands with the grim resignation of tiny people who have accepted their fate. They're flanked by baby chicks at their feet, with more chicks scattered around decorated eggs in the foreground, because apparently one chick just doesn't communicate the full existential weight of Easter. The boy smiles with the unsettling confidence of a child who absolutely has a plan. Framing the whole fever dream is a border of decorative Easter eggs featuring little cameo scenes, because if you wanted to express 'He is Risen,' obviously an ornate oval prison is the move.