Autumn warmth floods this luminous art postcard after a painting by Edward Theodore Compton (1849–1921), one of the most celebrated Alpine landscape artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries — his view of Salzburg from the pilgrimage church height of Maria Plain captures the city spread golden across the valley floor, Hohensalzburg Fortress rising on its rock in the middle distance and the snow-dusted peaks of the Berchtesgaden Alps beyond. Two figures in Trachten (traditional Austrian dress) descend stone steps in the foreground, anchoring the grand panorama in human scale. Published by Verlag Hermann Kerber, Salzburg (Künstlerpostkarte Nr. 1 — Artist's Postcard No. 1), this is the flagship card of Kerber's art postcard series. The reverse carries an Austrian 200 Kronen stamp (hyperinflation-era postage, c.1922–1923), a Salzburg machine cancel dated VII [July] 1923, and a densely handwritten message in German addressed to "Herrn Hofrat Dr. [Redlich?], Präsident der Akademie d. Wissenschaften" (Mr. Court Counsellor Dr. Redlich, President of the Academy of Sciences), Wien XIX, Vegagasse 9 — a distinguished academic recipient. The sender signs as "Karl" (or similar). The 200 Kronen denomination is characteristic of Austrian hyperinflation postal rates of 1922–1923, making the stamp itself a small document of economic upheaval.