John White album
name: label: Collection Art copyist
content: Praetorius, Charles
label: Collection Artist
content: White, John, active 1585-1593
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content: Charles Praetorius reproductions of drawings made by or associated with John White
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 68 Drawings (visual works)
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Drawings (visual works)
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content: Copies made by Charles Praetorius of 66 drawings from an album of John White drawings held by the British Museum.  The original album contains 75 watercolor drawings made by John White for a patron or friend. The drawings may have been assembled into an album by White himself for presentation or the drawings may have been given as loose sheets to his patron. The original title of the album is: "The pictures of sondry things collected and counterfeited according to the truth in the voyage made by Sr. Walter Raleigh knight for the discovery of LA VIRGINEA. In the 27th yeare of the most happie reigne of our Soveraigne lady Queene Elizabeth And in the yeare of our Lorde God. 1585."

The drawings include depictions of Southern Algonquian people, towns, ceremonies, and daily life; Inuit people; Timucua people; Tupinambá people; Picts; maps; and plants, fish, insects, birds, and reptiles. There are duplicate drawings of the two Timucua drawings.