Victorian Cherub Heart Greeting Card Die-Cut Lithograph

These two chubby winged cherubs seem convinced that harvesting literal hearts from a heart-bearing tree and presenting baskets of them is a perfectly normal romantic metaphor—one perched at a fence like a farmhand, the other below cradling that overflowing basket with the determination of someone making a sales pitch. Their tiny arrow-equipped quivers dangle nearby like little weapons of emotional destruction, and the text 'Give me but heart for heart' makes the whole harvest-of-human-hearts situation feel less like a love note and more like a ransom demand from a particularly well-decorated crime syndicate. Framed in ornate gold scrollwork and festooned with clusters of purple violets, this card is essentially Victorian capitalism at its finest: slap some nude baby angels on it, add a tree that literally grows hearts, and congratulations, you've commodified love itself. The lower cherub especially presents that basket like a door-to-door salesman who will absolutely not be taking no for an answer.