Fire in the desert. Sketch

Taras Shevchenko. Fire in the desert. Sketch. Pencil on paper (14,8 × 23,2 cm). [12.V 1848]. Taras Shevchenko National Museum, inv. g – 437.

Top right ink inscription: Number 117 – 122.

This is sketch for a watercolor of the same name (see number 2). Dated as the last.

Repeat this sketch see in the album G. M. Chernyshev [State Historical Museum, Moscow, inv. 63113, portfolio № 19, fol. 92].

In the literature is found under the title: "Hut in the desert over the river" [A. Novitsky, Taras Shevchenko as a painter, Lviv – Moscow, 1914, p. 57, № 258], "Camp in the steppe: tents, soldiers at watch" ["Catalogue of V. Tarnowski's museum of ukrainian antiquities", Chernigov, 1900, II, p. 178, № 258].

Storage areas: V. Tarnowski's Chernihiv museum of ukrainian antiquities – № 219, Chernihiv Regional History Museum, Gallery of pictures Shevchenko, Kharkiv.

K. V. Chumak

After publication: Taras Shevchenko Complete Works in 10 volumes. – Kyiv: ed. Academy of sciences of UkrSSR, 1962, vol. 8, № 141 (image), p. 48 (note).