Hillocks in desert

Taras Shevchenko. Hillocks in the desert. Stained paper, pencil (13,9 × 29,3 cm). [12 – 21.IX 1848; 22 – 30.VIII 1849]. Taras Shevchenko National Museum, inv. g – 578.

Top right ink marked: 117 – 83.

The manner of the figure and the nature of individual elements of the landscape picture reminds Nicholas island (see number 170).

Other views of Nicholas island see. number 26 – 31, 165 – 170, 172.

In literature titled "Prairie upland" ["Catalogue of V. Tarnowski's museum of ukrainian antiquities", Chernigov, 1900, II, p. 186, № 343].

Storage areas: V. Tarnowski's Chernihiv museum of ukrainian antiquities – № 343, Chernihiv Regional History Museum, Gallery of pictures Shevchenko, Kharkiv.

On the back – barely visible outline of the cliffs (not reproduced).

After publication: Taras Shevchenko Complete Works in 10 volumes. – Kyiv: ed. Academy of sciences of UkrSSR, 1962, vol. 8, № 171 (image), p. 59 (note).