Shore of Aral Sea
Taras Shevchenko. Shore of the Aral Sea. Stained paper, pencil (13,3 × 23,4 cm). [12 – 21.IX 1848; 22 – 30.VIII 1849]. Taras Shevchenko National Museum, inv. g – 470.
Top right is marked: Number 117 – 86.
On the back left pencil inscription: woda biala solona 2. Similar inscriptions in Polish, see number 140, 164, 169, 190 and figure "Caravan near the mountains Chir-Kala and Kok-Sujru".
The nature of the area shown recalls Nicholas island.
Other views of Nicholas island see number 26 – 31, 165, 166 and 168 – 172.
Found in the literature under the name «Woda biala solona» [A. Novitsky, Taras Shevchenko as a painter, Lviv – Moscow, 1914, p. 58, № 262].
Storage areas: V. Tarnowski's Chernihiv museum of ukrainian antiquities – № 232, Chernihiv Regional History Museum, Gallery of pictures Shevchenko, Kharkiv.
L. I. Vnuchkova
After publication: Taras Shevchenko Complete Works in 10 volumes. – Kyiv: ed. Academy of sciences of UkrSSR, 1962, vol. 8, № 167 (image), p. 57 – 58 (note).