Victorian Halloween Greetings Card with Girl, Black Cat & Pumpkin

There's an uncanny smugness radiating from this scene—a rosy-cheeked blonde child in a wide-brimmed hat and red cape, painted by Frances Brundage, nuzzles a black cat while her other hand rests on an uncarved pumpkin with the confidence of someone who knows exactly what she's doing. The black cat pressed against her chest stares outward with the thousand-yard vacancy of a creature deeply reconsidering its life choices. The decorative 'Hallowe'en Greetings' text in the upper right tries very hard to convince you this is wholesome holiday cheer, but something about a child in a witch-adjacent hat cradling the literal symbol of bad luck next to a pumpkin she hasn't even bothered to carve reads less like festive warmth and more like a tiny occultist who has simply not yet tipped her hand.