Victorian Cupid Love Card - Roses, Doves & Gold

While the card presents itself as a romantic Valentine with doves and roses, the imagery tells a more unsettling story: a business-casual cherub in flowing red outfit and tiny wings reaches upward toward a white dove mid-flight, with a second bird swooping dramatically below, creating the vague impression that this child deity is either releasing the bird or about to eat it. The bundle of arrows tied with blue ribbon tucked into the upper left seems to confirm the toddler has an agenda, and somehow a cherub that isn't naked but rather dressed up makes the whole affair worse.