Old man in cemetery. Drawing

Taras Shevchenko. The old man in the cemetery. Paper, sepia (28.7 × 21.6 cm). [St.Petersburg]. [Not later than 15.III] 1859. Taras Shevchenko National Museum, inv. g – 609.

On the bottom edge of the picture inscription in ink by hand Shevchenko: For Nadezhda Vasylivna Tarnowska on memory of [8 October 1859 Shevchenko] [in brackets taken cutted off part of the inscription].

On the back top left – ink inscription: Keeper on the cemetery in 1859.

See exact date in a comment to eponymous etching.

Sketch a picture of the old man see number 110.

Storage areas: V. Tarnowski's Chernihiv museum of ukrainian antiquities – № 380, Chernihiv Regional Historical Museum, Gallery of pictures by T.H. Shevchenko (Kharkiv).

In 1929 exposed at the exhibition of works of Taras Shevchenko in Chernihiv (Catalogue, p. 20, № 75).

K. V. Chumak

After publication: Taras Shevchenko Complete Works in 10 volumes. – Kyiv: ed. Academy of sciences of UkrSSR, 1963, v. 10, № 39 (image), p. 27 (note).