Studio portrait photograph of Captain George Ernest Shelley, Grenadier Guards, 1867. He is pictured standing in a civilian suit with frock coat, with one hand in his pocket and the other leaning on a book on top of a table. On a chair behind him rest his cane and top hat. He is the nephew of the poet Percey Bysshe Shelley. 

From an album of 202 photographs in the Grenadier Guards Photograph Archive compiled by or presented to Surgeon Major James John Marjoribanks Wardrop. The album is entitled: ‘Personal Album Surgeon Major Wardrup [sic], The Regiment, 1858-1868’, but covers the period 1854-1872. Mainly officers portraits. Grenadier Guards reference number 2.