The last days of Suvorov. Sketch

Taras Shevchenko. The last days of Suvorov. Sketch illustrations for book "History of Suvorov" by N.A.Polevoj. Other etudes and sketches.
[1842, august – September. St. Petersburg].
Pencil on paper. 16 × 18 cm
Kologriv Museum, № 1213.

On the back – Sepia "Matchmakers".

In the worksheet, left inscriptions in pencil: KRM CP 1329 (crossed) and the label – label accounting funds of Kologriv regional museum.

In the middle of the bottom – a sketch illustration for book "History of Suvorov" by N.A.Polevoj – "The last days of Suvorov». Left – sketches figures of sitter, profiles (some of them grotesque), portrait sketch the face of a young peasant, perhaps sketch to sepia "Matchmakers" that on the back, and indefinite composition story right – sketch "The group of people under a tree on river" – like figure "Ashore" in the album 1840 – 1844.

Dated by the time the preparatory work on the illustrations to "History of Suvorov", which entered to the third issue and prepared for engraving in August – September 1842.

First mentioned and reproduces a fragment of a sheet of sketches "The last days of Suvorov" in 1963 in Article I.V. Ivano [Ivano I. Unidentified drawings by T.H. Shevchenko // Literary Ukraine. – 1963. – March 5].

All sheet reproduces the first and commented in 1963 in the PZT [T. Shevchenko Complete Works: in 10 vol. – K., 1963. – T. 10. – p. 62. – № 124].

Places of storage: property G.O. Ladyzhenska, later in Kologriv museum (in Kologriv, Kostroma region, Russia).

V.A. Sudak

After publication: T.H. Shevchenko Complete Works in 12 volumes. – K.: Naukova Dumka, 2003, v. 7, p. 308 – 309 (image), p. 449 (note).