A fading deep purple-reddish brown carte-de-visite of Miss Mattie Gray Anthony by C. S. Judd in Sewanee, Tennessee. Anthony is captured from the chest up, posed sightly to the left. She is wearing a dark color dress with a collar and a pin attached at the collar. The photograph is on a rectangular mat frame and backing. On the back the sitter and location are written in black ink [Miss Mattie (Gray) / Anthony / Nashville / Tenn.] with the photographer's stamp below it [C. S. Judd, / Sewanee, Tenn.].