Victorian Valentine's Day Greeting Card with Cherub & Purple Violets

What immediately strikes a modern viewer is the sheer absurdity of a fully-clothed cherub in a tiny toga hauling around multiple lumpy red hearts that look disturbingly like oversized raspberries while standing barefoot on a pile of more of the same. The Art Nouveau vines swirling around him are doing their absolute best to class up the situation, adorned with tasteful purple violets, but no amount of floral elegance can distract from the cherub's wide-eyed, slightly unhinged expression — the look of a child who has been assigned too many hearts and is beginning to regret every decision. The text reads 'St. Valentine's Greeting,' because apparently even in the early 1900s, someone needed to clarify that yes, this is supposed to be romantic.