The eye passes between dark, near-vertical trunks and up a snow-covered slope, following the rime-covered branches that catch the light overhead. A lamp post stands among the trees at the left, its light picking out the frost as bright filigree against a dark background. The trunks and the far ground fall to deep shadow, while the snow rises pale across the lower right. Contrast is high, the frost reading brightest and the trunks darkest, with the two set directly against each other.

St. Hanshaugen, the hill the park is named for, was originally a bare rock outcrop used as common grazing land; from 1865 it was planted and laid out as a park, the first large public park outside the city centre and the first the municipality took charge of. The verso carries the printed grey label of Oslo Kamera Klubb’s twenty-fifth anniversary cavalcade, 19–24 March 1946, recording that the print was hung in that exhibition.

Technical Details: Likely a gelatin silver print on cream mount card, titled «Rimfrost i lykteskinn (St. Hanshaugen)» and signed in pencil at lower left and right. An archive number is inscribed on the verso.

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