Rocky shore of Aral Sea

Taras Shevchenko. Rocky shore of Aral Sea. Stained paper, pencil (15,8 × 29,3 cm). [30.VII – 23.IX 1848; 6.V – 22.IX 1849]. Taras Shevchenko National Museum, inv. g – 485.

Bottom right – pencil inscription by hand Shevchenko: w. c. 20. Top right ink marked: Number 117 – 66.

Dated by the time the first and second expedition sailings to the Aral Sea.

Storage areas: V. Tarnowski's Chernihiv museum of ukrainian antiquities – № 248, Chernihiv Regional History Museum, Gallery of pictures Shevchenko, Kharkiv.

E. A. Sereda

After publication: Taras Shevchenko Complete Works in 10 volumes. – Kyiv: ed. Academy of sciences of UkrSSR, 1962, vol. 8, № 158 (image), p. 54 – 55 (note).