Author:

Sloan, Kim  Search this

British Museum  Search this

Subject:

White, John fl. 1585-1593  Search this

Physical description:

viii, 142 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 30 cm

Type:

Congresses

In art

Place:

North America

America

Date:

2009

C2009

Notes:

Papers from a conference that corresponded to the exhibition "A New World: England's First View of America", held at the British Museum from March 15 to June 17, 2007.

Includes erratum slip.

Contents:

Introduction / Kim Sloan -- Roanoke's achievement / Karen Kupperman -- Economic and cultural contexts. Introduction and summary / Peter Mason -- Thomas Harriot's Brief and true report: Knowledge-making and the Roanoke voyage / Stephen Clucas -- 'Counterfeited according to the truth': John White, Lucas de Heere, and the truth in clothing / Michael Gaudio -- Truth and artifice in the visualization of native peoples: from the time of John White to the beginning of the 18th century / Stephanie Pratt -- Nature and natural History. Introduction and summary / Florike Egmond -- Elizabethan London's naturalists and the work of John White / Deborah Harkness -- Don't eat, don't touch: Native Americans, European newcomers and dangerous plants of North America / Karen Reeds -- New visions of a New World. Introduction and summary / Kim Sloan -- Conservation of John White's watercolours / Alice Rugheimer -- Analysis of John White's pigments / Janet Ambers, Duncan Hook and Antony Simpson -- John White's materials and techniques / Timea Tallian -- 'A kind of gentle painting': limning in 16th-century England / Katherine Coombs -- Through an artist's eye: Observations on aspects of copying in two groups of work by John White, c. 1585-90 / Sally Birch -- American history. Introduction and summary / Peter C. Mancall -- Lost colonists and lost tribes / Michael Leroy Oberg -- John White and British antiquity: savage origins in the context of Tudor historiography / Sam Smiles -- Serialised Virginia: the representational format for comparative ethnology, c. 1600 / Ernst van den Boogaart -- Texts, images and the perception of 'savages' in early modern Europe: what we can learn from White and Harriot / Joan-Pau Rubiés -- Past, present, and future: exploring and restoring native perspectives in the Chesapeake / Audrey Horning

Topic:

Indians in art  Search this

Discovery and exploration  Search this

British  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_926372