European Visions:
American Voices
Edited by Kim Sloan
British Museum Research Publication 172
ISBN 978 086159 172 5
© The Trustees of the British Museum 2009
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Notes on the contributors, abstracts of their papers and recent publications
Introduction by Kim Sloan
Keynote Paper: Roanoke’s Achievement
Karen Kupperman
John White, A Festive Dance (detail), North America, around AD 1585-93
Section 1: 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
Section 2: 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: Roanoke Colonists, Natural Knowledge, and Dangerous Plants of North America
Please note the title of this paper has been corrected since the hard-copy book version was printed in March 2009
Karen Reeds
Section 3: 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
Section 4: 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