Rocks on the Aral sea
Taras Shevchenko. Rocks. Stained paper, pencil (16,1 × 9,6 cm). [30.VII – 23.IX 1848; 6.V – 22.IX 1849]. Taras Shevchenko National Museum, inv. g – 566.
Top right ink marked: Number 117 – 134.
The nature of the area shown is a landscape of mountainous shores of the Aral Sea (see note to number 157).
Dated by the time the first and second expedition sailings to the Aral Sea.
On the back – light sketch of the same pattern (not reproduced).
Storage areas: V. Tarnowski's Chernihiv museum of ukrainian antiquities – № 334, Chernihiv Regional History Museum, Gallery of pictures Shevchenko, Kharkiv.
E. A. Sereda
After publication: Taras Shevchenko Complete Works in 10 volumes. – Kyiv: ed. Academy of sciences of UkrSSR, 1962, vol. 8, № 160 (image), p. 55 (note).