Victorian Easter Greeting Card with Children and Giant Rabbit

The older girl in her aggressively pink dress and her smaller bonneted companion have a dynamic that reads neatly as 'please don't' — she appears to be mid-gesture toward the towering grey-and-white rabbit while clutching her smaller friend protectively. This enormous creature sits on its haunches with its front paws raised in what the artist clearly intended as 'charming' but reads unmistakably as 'I have demands.' The rabbit's dead-eyed stare across the scene, flanked by cheerful tulips and the gold-lettered proclamation of 'Joyous Eastertide,' suggests that whoever coined the phrase 'Easter magic' had never actually looked a rabbit this size directly in the face.