Ivan Bilibin

Иллюстрация к былине "Вольга"

1928

Dating

Exact year

Held at

State Russian Museum

Medium

drawing

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

Public domain (WikiArt label)License details

Ivan Bilibin. Иллюстрация к былине "Вольга". Image source: WikiArt. Source rights label: Public domain. https://www.wikiart.org/en/ivan-bilibin/underwater-illustration-for-the-epic-volga-1928. Collected under the user's explicit WikiArt source approval of 6 October 2026; this approval is separate from the source's rights assertion. Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression. Exact native РС-4027 underwater design: the red-sailed vessel and island silhouettes above curling white waves, hooked large pike, two sturgeon, patterned smaller fish and lower-left 1928 monogram agree in their individual outlines and positions. The initial 1902 cavalry and 1904 city-entry illustrations are different scenes. The specifically titled Underwater source resolves this 1928 design through a published colour reproduction; its book caption and white surround are retained. The native original sheet margins are not established by this published reproduction. Source colour and contrast differ and remain unaltered; no catalogue metadata is rewritten. Editorial same-work confidence exceeds 90%, based on the separately compared native and source photographs and exact object identity. Published colour reproduction with its printed book caption; the native original sheet margins are not established. The complete supplied source frame is preserved without additional cropping, colour correction or geometric changes.

Location checked Sep 13, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.