Carte-de-visite head and shoulders photograph of Princess Alexandra of Anhalt-Dessau, in a vignette format. The subject is shown in three quarter view, facing towards the right of the image. Her blonde, wavy hair is decorated by a ribbon and she is wearing a large oval locket on a choker around her neck. She is wearing an off-the-shoulder pale coloured silk gown, trimmed with lace.

Alexandra was the daughter of Duke Leopold Friedrich I of Anhalt-Dessau and Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Altenburg. In 1897 she married Furst Gunther Sizzo von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and the couple had three children.