During his thirteen months on Roanoke Island, Governor John White, an accomplished artist, made a series of over seventy watercolor drawings of indigenous people, plants, and animals. The purpose of his drawings was to give those back home an accurate idea of the inhabitants and environment in the New World. Despite their extraordinary significance, the watercolors were not published until the twentieth century.
One example is shown above (click on it to enlarge).
To see seventeen more examples: Click Here.
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