drawing;
offset
- Museum number
- 1906,0509.2
- Description
-
Volume bound in a XIXc red Morocco binding with gilt ruling and gold tooling and "JOHN WHITE'S/DRAWINGS/IN/WATER COLOURS/1585/OFFSETS IN 1865" and "SIR WALTER/RALEIGH'S/VOYAGE INTO/VIRGINIA" on the spine, containing 72 offsets from drawings by John White (registered as 1906-5-9-1); interleaved with blank sheets. 1865
- Production date
- 1865
- Dimensions
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Height: 376 millimetres
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Width: 244 millimetres (covers)
- Curator's comments
- These sheets now bound in a separate album, were originally interleaved between the watercolour drawings by John White (registered as 1906-5-9-1). The original volume containing the John White watercolours was saturated with water after a fire broke out, while awaiting sale at Sotheby's in 1865. The volume was dismantled after it was sold to Henry Stevens, and the original drawings and offsets were bound separately. The offsets have remained together in the present album but the John White watercolours have all been mounted separately. See Paul Hulton and D B Quinn for the descriptions of the individual sheets and pp.28-9 for an older account of the history of the offsets.
More recently the original drawings and offsets were the subject of an exhibition at the British Museum which then toured the US. The publication that accompanied the exhibition has a detailed account of the history of the drawings and volumes and an analysis of the offsets and comparison of many of them with the original watercolours: Kim Sloan, 'A New World: England's First View of America' (London, BM Publications, 2006). The main discussion from that catalogue has been transcribed in the main entry on the series of watercolours, in the curatorial comment for 1906,0509.1.1, the title page inscription to the album.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2007 Mar-Jun, BM, 'A New World:...'
2007/8 Oct-Jan, Raleigh, North Carolina Mus of History, 'A New World:...'
2008 Mar-Jun, New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, 'A New World:...'
2008 Jul-Oct, Williamsburg, Jamestown Settlement, 'A New World:...'
- Acquisition date
- 1866
- Acquisition notes
- A volume of offsets from the drawings in the album 1906,0509.1. It was transferred from the library department of the British Museum together with the original album, and shares the same provenance.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1906,0509.2
