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Author Sloan, Kim.

Title A new world : England's first view of America / Kim Sloan ; with contributions by Joyce E. Chaplin, Christian F. Feest and Ute Kuhlemann.

Imprint Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, 2007.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  975.5010222 Sl52n 2007    ---  Available
Description 256 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps ; 28 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Director's foreword -- Note to the reader -- Acknowledgments -- ch. 1. Setting the stage for John White, a gentleman in Virginia / Kim Sloan -- ch. 2. Knowing John White : the courtier's 'curious and gentle art of limning' / Kim Sloan -- ch. 3. An Elizabethan 'governour' in Virginia / Kim Sloane -- ch. 4. Roanoke 'counterfeited according to the truth' / Joyce E. Chaplin -- ch. 5. John White's new world / Christian F. Feest -- ch. 6. Between reproduction, invention and propaganda : Theodor de Bry's engravings after John White's watercolours / Ute Kuhlemann -- Catalogue -- John White's watercolours / Kim Sloan -- Introduction -- North Carolina Algonquians -- Costume studies -- 'Som picture, of the pictes which in the olde tyme dyd habite one part of the Great Bretainne' -- Inuit -- Flora, fish and other fauna -- The Sloane volume of watercolours associated with John White -- Tupinamba Indians of Brazil -- Flowers -- North Carolina birds -- North Carolina fish and reptiles -- White's watercolour techniques and pigments -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Chronology -- Photographic acknowlegements -- Concordance -- Index.
Subject White, John, active 1585-1593 -- Catalogs.
White, John, active 1585-1593.
Indians -- Pictorial works -- Catalogs.
Virginia -- In art -- Catalogs.
North Carolina -- In art -- Catalogs.
Added Author Chaplin, Joyce E.
Feest, Christian F.
Kuhlemann, Ute.
ISBN 0807858250 (paper)
9780807858257 (paper)
0807831255 (cloth)
9780807831250 (cloth)
Standard No. YDXCP 2498633
YDXCP 2498634
NLGGC 303489995
AU@ 000041725822
NZ1 11080686

 
    
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