Edwardian Valentine Greeting Card with Romantic Couple & Hearts

The card reads 'A Valentine Message,' which in the Edwardian era apparently meant: woman in a flowing yellow dress and elaborate hat holds a tiny red-ribboned something while being observed by a brooding man who has literally been relegated to a framed inset portrait in the upper left corner — because even in 1905, women were outsourcing their suitors to a separate dimension. He rests his chin on his hand with the energy of someone who has read too much Keats and not touched grass in weeks, while she stands amid a cascading blizzard of tiny embossed hearts, blissfully unaware or magnificently unbothered. The pink blossoming tree behind him suggests spring romance; his expression suggests a man composing his seventh rejected sonnet. Scattered hearts: aggressive. His containment in a box: aspirational.