Forest border (2)

Taras Shevchenko. Forest border. Paper, pencil, ink (16.2 × 23 cm). [VI – VIII 1859]. Taras Shevchenko National Museum, inv. g – 282.

On the back of the picture at the bottom right – pencil inscription: Shevchenko.

According to literary sources, a figure included in the Shevchenko's album of 1858 – 1859

Dated by residence time Shevchenko in Ukraine in 1859.

Storage areas: property of V. N. Lazarevsky, B. V. Lazarevsky, S. S. Botkin, Russian museum, Institute of Taras Shevchenko, Kharkiv, Gallery of pictures Shevchenko, Kharkiv.

Barely noticeable drawn sketch on the back of the forest, close to the image on the front side, not reproduced.

E. A. Sereda

After publication: Taras Shevchenko Complete Works in 10 volumes. – Kyiv: ed. Academy of sciences of UkrSSR, 1963, v. 10, № 81 (image), p. 46 (note).