Moonlit and magnificent, this jewel-toned Edwardian postcard shows the Forth Rail Bridge as seen from the northwest — its great cantilever spans glowing amber-orange against an inky Scottish sky, the full moon hanging above like a lantern, while sailing ships rest on the Firth of Forth below and a cluster of stone cottages nestles on the foreground hillside. Opened in 1890 after seven years of construction and 98 workers' lives, the Forth Bridge was the engineering marvel of the Victorian age, and postcards like this one — produced by the celebrated Hartmann firm and printed in Saxony — brought the bridge's grandeur to parlours across Britain and the Empire. The reverse is an undivided-back Hartmann card with the characteristic red-ink heraldic trade logo, specifying inland postage ½d and foreign 1d, and noting "Printed in Saxony" — hallmarks that date this card to 1902–1904 at the latest, the earliest years of the British picture-postcard craze. Catalog number 1051 appears on the front lower left. The card is unused and unaddressed, a clean example of Hartmann's high-quality chromolithographic output.