Newly risen above the rooftops of Victoria, Westminster Cathedral's soaring campanile and Byzantine-striped brick bulk fill this early Edwardian halftone view — the Catholic mother church of England completed only in 1903, here captured while still almost new, its distinctive alternating bands of red brick and Portland stone unmistakable against the grey London sky. Published in the "Artistic Series" by the Artistic Publishing Co. of London and phototyped in Bavaria (a common practice of the era when German printing was considered superior), this undivided or early divided-back card dates to approximately 1903–1910, the golden age of picture postcard collecting when millions of cards like this one were sent and saved with passionate devotion. The card is unused, blank on both sides, a pristine survivor of the postcard craze that swept Edwardian Britain.