Nicholas island
Taras Shevchenko. Nicholas island. Pencil on paper (14 × 22,9 cm). [12 – 21.IX 1848; 22 – 30.VIII 1849]. Taras Shevchenko National Museum, inv. g – 467.
Top right ink marked: Number 117 – 81.
The name defined by similarity of manners with picture number 170, where the hand Shevchenko wrote: ON, which means "Nicholas island".
Other pictures of Nicholas island see number 26 – 31, 165 – 167, 169 – 172.
On the back – outline tents and bush (see number 169).
Found in the literature under the name "River bank" ["Catalogue of V. Tarnowski's museum of ukrainian antiquities", Chernigov, 1900, II, p. 179, № 229].
Storage areas: V. Tarnowski's Chernihiv museum of ukrainian antiquities – № 229, Chernihiv Regional History Museum, Gallery of pictures Shevchenko, Kharkiv.
After publication: Taras Shevchenko Complete Works in 10 volumes. – Kyiv: ed. Academy of sciences of UkrSSR, 1962, vol. 8, № 168 (image), p. 58 (note).