Victorian Children Climbing Fruit Basket Die-Cut Greeting Card

The curly-haired boy in a teal suit clutching the ankle of a girl in a red polka-dot dress who stands on a ladder leading into an enormous wicker basket is the artistic choice that somehow makes sense to Victorian sensibilities — because apparently the best way to express 'be my valentine' is a man grabbing your foot while you try to climb away from him. The basket, inexplicably the size of a small studio apartment, is festooned with oversized red hearts and four-leaf clovers, as if Love itself needed to be housed in something you'd use to move furniture. Below, a cheerful little basket of violets and red hearts sits at ground level, completely unbothered by the unfolding ankle-grab situation, and the card's cursive inscription — 'with love and best wishes' — does absolutely nothing to explain any of this.