John White: Artist of the Lost Colony
John White travelled with Richard Grenville to North Carolina in 1585 and was later Sir Walter Raleigh’s governor of the “Lost Colony” on Roanoke Island when it was beset with volcanoes and plunged into the sea never to be seen again (ed. note: or something). His watercolors of the flora, fauna, and indigenous people’s are a remarkable record. These are from The American Drawings of John White, 1577-1590. With Drawings of European and Oriental Subjects: A Catalogue Raisonné and a Study of the Artist, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1964. It’s possible those Pictish folks were not in North Carolina, but I haven’t dipped into the text volume yet…
9/20/2012