Criticism Of John White's Watercolor Paintings

John White was an artist and a cartographer who traveled from England to the outer banks of North Carolina in 1585. John White was at the Roanoke Island for about thirteen months before returning home to England for more supplies. He made a series of paintings of indigenous people, plants and animals almost over seventy paintings. The purpose of his paintings he thought was to give the people back home an idea of what the new world was like. Despite the significance the watercolor paintings were not published until the twentieth century. Theodore De Bry made engravings on John Whites paintings so they could be printed in Thomas Hariot’s account of the journey. A second colony for what is now known as North Carolina, vanished in the 1580s