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 Division
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)

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)