Vintage Easter Greeting Card with Cherub and Rabbit, Early 1900s

The decision to outfit a chubby, oversized-headed cherub in a bonnet — a flower-adorned bonnet — creates immediate cognitive dissonance that only amplifies when you realize the winged figure is gleefully hauling a very much alive and scrambling rabbit across the ground by what appears to be a leash or reins, the bunny clearly mid-escape attempt. The child's expression is not 'innocent delight' but the specific unhinged grin of someone who has absolutely no concept of consequences, which tracks given that someone thought this constituted wholesome Easter content. The poem below — 'May they come every way / And make happy this Easter Day' — is doing heroic, thankless work trying to spin 'toddler drags panicked rabbit' into a message of seasonal joy. Victorian Easter: where animal subjugation was just good family fun.