Rocks

Taras Shevchenko. Rocks. Stained paper and pencil (14.3 × 23.4 cm). [21.V – Not later than 6.IX 1851]. Taras Shevchenko National Museum, inv. g – 567.

Top right ink marked: Number 117 – 162.

This figure, like pictures number 112 – 122, which shows the rocks, by the nature of the terrain, the quality of paper and manner of execution are similar to the group of pictures made Shevchenko in 1851 in Kara-Tau expedition.

Storage areas: collections of A. A. Kozachkovsky, V. P. Kakhovski, S. D. Brazol, V. Tarnowski's Chernihiv museum of ukrainian antiquities – № 332, Chernihiv Historical Museum, the Gallery of pictures Shevchenko, Kharkov.

On the back – sketch of a man figure (see number 111).

V. O. Sudak

After publication: Taras Shevchenko Complete Works in 10 volumes. – Kyiv: ed. Academy of sciences of UkrSSR, 1964, Vol. 9, № 110 (image), p. 57 (note).