Victorian Easter Chicks Pussy Willow Greeting Card Chromolithograph

A wooden plank serving as prime real estate for three freshly-hatched yellow chicks—one perched at the top surveying its domain, one mid-bark doing what can only be described as an open-beaked existential scream, and one at the bottom, closest to an unhatched speckled egg, seemingly wondering if it's too late to go back in. The pussy willow branches arcing overhead lend the whole scene an aspirational quality—yes, little ones, someday you too may reach the fuzzy buds—while the soft pastel sky behind them suggests this is supposed to be wholesome spring content and not, in fact, a generational trauma tableau.