Victorian Easter Greetings Card Boy Rabbit Flowers Chromolithograph

An unsettling confidence permeates this scene as the child struts down a sun-dappled path in his red jacket, blue knickerbockers, and straw hat, radiating the energy of someone who has absolutely robbed the Easter Bunny at knifepoint — clutching a green basket stuffed with eggs and a fistful of blue flowers like stolen loot while two actual rabbits watch from behind a wooden fence with the thousand-yard stare of witnesses. The boy's rosy, cherubic face glows with the specific certainty of a Victorian child who has never once been told 'no,' and the rabbits — one sitting, one rearing up on its haunches — appear to be calculating their next move. 'Easter Greetings,' declares the ornate gold text at the bottom, though the scene reads less like a holiday card and more like the inciting incident of a nature documentary about prey animals finally snapping.