Exploring the Carolinas
Theodor de Bry after John White
A Briefe and True Report of
the New Found Land of Virginia.
Frankfurt am Main: 1590
Copper-plate engravings
Rare Book & Special Collections
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Gift of Lessing Rosenwald (21B.1)
Theodor De Bry after John White watercolor. "Their
manner of fishynge in Virginia"
from Thomas Hariot,
A Briefe and True Report of the
New Found Land of Virginia.
Frankfurt am Main: 1590
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division
Gift of Lessing Rosenwald (21B.2)
Theodor de Bry after John White watercolor.
"Florida Indians Planting Beans
and Maize" from Thomas Hariot,
A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia.
Franfurt am Main: 1590
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division
Gift of Lessing Rosenwald (21B.11)
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John White, one of the company sent by Sir Walter
Raleigh to establish an English colony on Roanoke Island in 1585,
went at least twice to the Carolina coast in the 1580s. There
he produced a series of drawings of the everyday life of the Native
American populations. Theodor de Bry engraved these scenes from
White's renderings. White also compiled this map of the North
Carolina coast from Cape Lookout to the mouth of the Chesapeake
Bay, based on the British explorations of 1585-86, which was subsequently
engraved by de Bry and published in 1590.
John White
Americae pars, nunc Virginia
Americae pars, nunc Virginia
enlarged
Engraved map
Geography & Map Division
(21A.1)
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