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Bogdan's ruins in Subotiv (fol. 12 v.)

Taras Shevchenko. Bogdan's ruins in…

Taras Shevchenko. Bogdan's ruins in Subotiv. Watercolor.
[IV-X 1845]. Back of sheet 12 of album 1845.

On the left, just below center on the image with ink inscription hand Shevchenko Bogdan ruins // in Subotiv.

Dated by the same motives as the picture "Stone crosses in Subotiv".

In the literature found under the name "House of Khmelnitsky in Subotiv" [A. Rusov. Collection of drawings Shevchenko, "Kievan Antiquity", vol. XXIV, K., 1894, February, p. 184].

S.E. Raevsky mistakenly dates picture in 1846 ["Artist Taras Shevchenko», X., 1939, p. 62].

N. P. Prokopenko

After publication: Taras Shevchenko Complete works in 10 volumes. – Kyiv: ed. Academy of sciences of UkrSSR, 1961, Vol. 7, part 2, № 221 (image), p. 17 (note).