Carte-de-visite head and shoulders photograph of Queen Emma of the Netherlands, in a vignette format. The subject is shown in three quarter view, facing towards the right of the image. Her hair is arranged in a chignon and decorated with a hair corsage of flowers. She is wearing a pendant on a black choker around her neck. She is wearing a pale coloured, high necked garment with a frilled collar.

Emma was the daughter of Prince Georg Viktor of Waldeck and Pyrmont and Princess Helena of Nassau. In 1879 she married the elderly King William III of the Netherlands and the couple had one daughter.