Victorian Easter Greeting Card with Cherubs and Lamb

A modern viewer would immediately notice the sheer number of symbolic props crammed into one small card—the flute, the cross staff, the drum, the lamb, the tree, the birds—all meant to communicate Easter's spiritual significance to Victorian audiences who apparently couldn't grasp the concept without a full theological inventory. The cherubs themselves are rendered with such cherubic perfection that they look less like children and more like tiny, winged adults, which is less unsettling than it might be only because that was genuinely how Victorian artists depicted childhood.