John White (colonist and artist)
John White was an English colonial governor, explorer, artist, and cartographer. White was among those who sailed with Richard Grenville in the first attempt to colonize Roanoke Island in 1585, acting as artist and mapmaker to the expedition. He would most famously briefly serve as the governor of the second attempt to found Roanoke Colony on the same island in 1587 and discover the colonists had mysteriously vanished.
The return of Governor White to the "Lost Colony"
Watercolour by John White of Roanoke Indians
White's patron, Sir Walter Raleigh
Baptism of Virginia Dare, wood-engraving, 1880
Roanoke Island is an island in Dare County, bordered by the Outer Banks of North Carolina. It was named after the historical Roanoke, a Carolina Algonquian people who inhabited the area in the 16th century at the time of English colonization.
Watercolor by Englishman John White of the natives of the Roanoke Peoples.
The discovery of Croatoan by Sir Walter Raleigh's Expedition, as painted by John White. Croatan is a nearby island on the Outer Banks, but it could not be investigated due to an approaching hurricane.
Wood Engraving of early settlers arriving in coastal North Carolina from 1713.
The soldier in our Civil War - a pictorial history of the conflict, 1861–1865, illustrating the valor of the soldier as displayed on the battle-field, from sketches drawn by Forbes, Waud, Taylor, (14576444137)
