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CUPID and Valentine’s Day cards first

Continued from Page 1 became popular, around 1800,
they were handmade and not
is immediately filled with for children. Children’s cards
uncontrollable desire for the first developed after the Industrial
person that they see or for the Revolution that allowed the
person whose name is written on mass production of inexpensive
the arrow. cards. By the time of the
Even Cupid is subject to his Industrial Revolution, Cupid
own power. In one story, Cupid had morphed from a god of
is wounded by one of his arrows sexual desire to a chubby boy
and immediately desires Psyche. He of first love romance, making
learns first hand the pain and torture him, more or less, suited for all
of uncontrollable sexual love for another ages.
person. Originally commercially
By the Middle Ages, Cupid became a popular manufactured Valentine’s
motif in classical art; however, Christian influences Day cards failed to capture
toned done Cupid’s sexual, earthly love and replaced it with the public’s imagination. This
a form of heavenly love. By the late 1800s, when Valentine’s Cute, vintage Valentine with changed in 1866 when Louis
Day cards started to become popular, Cupid had evolved into Cupid and winged hearts. Prang of Boston invented his
the spirit of romantic love. This card was offered on the Chromolithography process
The famous Roman writer, Marcus Tullius Cicero, writing Internet for just $2. whereby printed images,
in about 50 BCE, suggested there were actually three separate for the first time, could be
Cupids, which is why many Valentine’s Day cards portray produced with vivid colors and
more than one Cupid flying around a couple, shooting exceptional detail.
arrows. Continued >
Cupid represents sexual lust or desire, so, as such, he is not ←Die-cut, antique
suitable for most children’s Valentine’s Day cards, but he is with Cupid,
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found in abundance on adult-themed cards. When Christmas circa 1900 – 1920
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