Spurs of Kara-Tau (2)

Taras Shevchenko. Spurs of Kara-Tau. Stained paper and pencil (16.4 × 29.1 cm). [VI 1851]. Taras Shevchenko National Museum, inv. g – 511.

Lower left in pencil hand Shevchenko 6. Top right ink marked: Number 117 – 35. The sheet watermark: I. Whatman. 1845.

Author's number indicates that this picture, as well as previous, performed at the beginning of the expedition, after arriving in the Apazyr valley, tentatively in June. Similar in character depicted area and manner of execution, see pictures number 74 and 107.

In the literature is found under the title: "A set of uplands" ["Catalogue of V. Tarnowski's museum of ukrainian antiquities", Vol. II, Chernigov, 1900, p. 182, № 274], "Hill" [A. Novitsky, Taras Shevchenko as a painter, Lviv – Moscow, 1914, p. 62, № 350].

Storage areas: V. Tarnowski's Chernihiv museum of ukrainian antiquities – № 274, Chernihiv Historical Museum, Gallery of pictures by T.H. Shevchenko (Kharkiv).

I. M. Verykivska

After publication: Taras Shevchenko Complete Works in 10 volumes. – Kyiv: ed. Academy of sciences of UkrSSR, 1964, Vol. 9, № 75 (image), p. 45 (note).