The following account is provided on separate letterpress along with photographic plate:

“Mr. Pringle informs us that this picture was taken about 9 P.M. on a July evening on a Norwegian fjord.  The boat is an old Norway lugger, and the curious lines in the water are waves formed in the wake of the steamer from which the photograph was taken.
The negative was taken in a No. 4 Cartridge Kodak.”