The ancient stone wings of Holyrood Palace spread along the base of Edinburgh's volcanic Arthur's Seat in this richly hand-tinted Edwardian card — the ruined arches of the 12th-century Holyrood Abbey ghosting at the left, the Union Jack flying proudly from the palace roofline, and the whole dramatic composition framed by the rust-and-ochre slopes of the 823-foot crag that has watched over Scotland's royal residence for a thousand years. Holyrood, the official Scottish residence of the British monarch, has been the setting for some of the most dramatic episodes in Scottish royal history — Mary Queen of Scots held court here, witnessed the murder of her secretary David Rizzio in these very rooms, and married the Earl of Bothwell in the now-ruined abbey. The card was produced by the celebrated Frankfurt-based publisher Carl Hartmann, whose distinctive globe-and-figure colophon appears on the reverse, and is part of the Edwardian boom in British scenic cards that flooded the market between 1902 and 1910. The reverse is unused, clean, and shows the standard Hartmann divided-back format used in the mid-to-late 1900s decade.