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Title:European visions : American voices / edited by Kim Sloan.
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ISBN:9780861591725 (pbk.)
0861591720 (pbk.)
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Published/Created:London : British Museum, c2009.
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Physical Description:viii, 142 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), map ; 30 cm.
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Links:Web version:
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Notes:Papers from a conference that corresponded to the exhibition "A new world: England's first view of America", held at the British Museum from March 15 to June 17, 2007.
Includes erratum slip.
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Other formats:Also available online.
- Format:Book
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Series:British Museum research publication, no. 172
Research publication (British Museum) ; no. 172.
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BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references.
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Contents:Introduction / Kim Sloan -- Roanoke's Achievement / Karen Kupperman -- 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 -- 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: Native Americans, European Newcomers and Dangerous Plants of North America / Karen Reeds -- 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 -- 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.
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Subjects:White, John, active 1585-1593--Congresses.
Indians in art--Congresses.
North America--In art--Congresses.
America--Discovery and exploration--British--Congresses.
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Also listed under:Sloan, Kim.
British Museum.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/8882332