print;
book-illustration;
map
- Museum number
- Y,2.104
- Description
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Compartment in bottom centre headed 'A description of part of the adventures of Cap: Smith in Virginia', and containing a map of Virginia; five compartments surrounding it depicting Smith's encounters with native Americans; at top, three native American figures, labelled 'A Coniuror', 'Their Idoll', and 'A Priest'; illustration (from between pages 40 and 41) from John Smith's "The Generall Historie of Virginia" (London: 1624)
Engraving
- Production date
- 1624
- Dimensions
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Height: 279 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 361 millimetres (trimmed)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The print is based on Theodor de Bry's illustrations to Thomas Hariot, "A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia", 1590, themselves after drawings by John White in the British Museum (see 1906,0509.1.16 etc); see K. Sloan, "A New World: England's first view of America", British Museum, 2007.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2023-2024 27 Oct-28 Jan, York Art Gallery, National Programmes Drawing attention tour
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England and the Summer Isles
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Acquisition notes
- From a Sloane album: see comment on Y,2.1
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Y,2.104
