Victorian Easter Chicks Cart Die-Cut Greeting Card

Pure maximalist fever dream energy radiates from this card, where one fluffy yellow chick adorned with a jaunty blue ribbon bow has been conscripted into pulling a white egg-shaped cart decorated with forget-me-nots and a matching blue bow — because Victorian illustrators apparently felt that child labor was more charming when the laborers are also babies. Inside the cart, two more chicks nestle smugly among the blue flowers, having fully outsourced their locomotion to their equally tiny peer. The wheel of this absurd vehicle is itself wreathed in forget-me-nots, because if you're going to build an impossible flower-cart pulled by an infant bird, you might as well go full maximalist. Somewhere in the 1890s, a greeting card executive looked at this and said 'yes, this is what Easter means.'