New World: England's First View of America

Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date: 2007 Publisher: itish Museum Press in Click on the Google Preview image above to the read some pages of this book! Presents a reproduction of the famous itish Museum collection of drawings made by John White. who in 1585. accompanied a group of English settlers sent to found a colony in 'Virginia'. This book explores White's role as a colonist. surveyor and artist who recorded the plants and animals. and also provided a window on the native American culture.

Kim Sloan is curator of British drawings and watercolours and Francis Finlay curator of the Enlightenment Gallery in the British Museum. She is the author of 'A Noble Art': Amateur Artists and Drawing Masters c. 1600 - 1800, co-author of Vases and Volcanoes: Sir William Hamilton and his collection and editor of Enlightenment: Discovering the World in the Eighteenth Century.