Victorian Valentine's Day Greeting Card with Cherub & Pink Flowers

The topless cherub perched beside a heart-shaped wreath of pink roses sports the facial expression of a middle manager who's seen too much while cradling what appears to be a bow and gesturing toward an oval portrait of a young woman in a yellow hat—because the card's bold thesis is that romance is best expressed through a semi-nude supernatural infant presenting you like a product at an auction. The woman in the medallion, holding roses and wearing a high-collared outfit, gazes out with the serene composure of someone who has accepted their fate of being forever framed by flowers on a teal background. The poem's insistence on her 'modesty' while the cherub looms shirtless and proprietary is the Victorian equivalent of calling something 'classy' right before it isn't.