Vintage Valentine card with three cherubs holding heart plants – Vintage Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Vintage Valentine card with three cherubs holding heart plants, a historic image rich in period detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Vintage Valentine card with three cherubs holding heart plants
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Three cherubs hold up a heart-shaped plant on this vintage Valentine card, a sentimental motif that was popular on greeting cards in the decades around the turn of the twentieth century. Valentine's cards of this era were often printed with embossed or lithographed scenes of putti, the chubby winged figures borrowed from classical and Renaissance art, and sending one was a common way to express affection without speaking it aloud. The heart-shaped plant itself reflects the Victorian and Edwardian fondness for floral symbolism, when particular blooms and foliage carried coded meanings. Noticing the cherubs' playful poses and the layered sentiment of the design shows how much care went into these small paper keepsakes.
| Original scan | 1,630 × 1,042 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | Img147 |
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