A lone vessel pitches through dark, heaving swells beneath a cloud-veiled moon — the kind of nocturne that made early-twentieth-century maritime art postcards irresistible to parlor collectors. The image, rendered in rich sepia tones suggestive of a wash painting or mezzotint reproduction, captures a single-masted working boat with a lantern glowing at the masthead, its hull nearly swallowed by the churning sea. The dramatic sky — luminous where the moon breaks through, thunderous everywhere else — gives the card a romantic, almost melancholic quality entirely in keeping with the Symbolist-influenced postcard art fashionable around 1910–1912. The copyright notice in the lower left reads "© 1911 H.A. Brussel," identifying the artist or publisher. The reverse is a clean, unused "divided back" format printed by The Pink of Perfection (Regd), a small specialty stationer active in the early 1900s; the card was never mailed, preserving its front in excellent original condition with only minor aging to the card stock.