A New World
Subtitle: England's First View of America
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: March 26, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780807858257
Subjects: Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - Museum; Native American; United States - Colonial Period; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies; General; Art; Art & Art Instruction; John White; Roanoke Island; Joyce E. Chaplin; Christian Feest; Ute Kuhlemann; Sir Walter Raleigh; The Lost Colony; Algonquin Indians; Florida Indians; West Indian flora and fauna; Inuit; Martin Frobisher; Picts; ancient Britons; Theodor de Bry; Mark Catesby; Europeans in the New World; Elizabethan England; Roanoke Voyages; North Carolina Algonquians; Sir Hans Sloane; Thomas Harriot; de Bry engravings; limning; miniature painting; Sir Humphrey Gilbert; Outer Banks; Arthur Barlowe; representations of American Indians in Europe;
Description: "This book reproduces in full the celebrated but rarely seen British Museum collections of watercolours made by this relatively unknown gentleman-artist. It also tells the story of his five voyages to 'Virginia' and his role as Governor of the 'Lost Colony' of Roanoke, which preceded Captain John Smith's more successful settlement at Jamestown twenty years later." "White's watercolours bring to life the complex and sophisticated culture of the coastal Carolina Algonquians. All his known work is reproduced here - maps and charts, watercolours of Florida Indians, West Indian flora and fauna, the Inuit encountered by Martin Frobisher, and an amazing and influential set of watercolours of Picts and ancient Britons. Each one is reproduced in colour opposite its historical explanation, supplemented by the famous de Bry engravings, which were responsible for spreading his images throughout Europe, as well as other comparable works by contemporary and later artists including Mark Catesby, the eighteenth-century natural historian."--Jacket.