Victorian Valentine Card with Boy & Turtle Doves Garden Scene

A small boy in a full blue outfit and a child-messenger relationship with two white doves creates a fever dream of a restraining order in motion: he strides mid-pace inside a giant pink ribbon heart, dragging a red heart behind him on a string while his avian accomplices frame the whole operation. The poem, rendered in festive multi-colored script, cheerfully informs the recipient that they 'can't decline to come with me, My Valentine,' which is the kind of consent framework you'd expect from a Victorian garden goblin. The pastoral backdrop of trees and soft meadow light does absolutely nothing to soften the fact that this child-messenger is essentially a subpoena with a beret.