English 205 hw1

--READ the short essay attached above:  "1585: John White paints Virginia" (Gaudio).   (check attachment)

--VISIT the websites below and examine the depictions of life in Virginia through the eyes of an Englishman of the day.

John White paintings – Roanoke Virginia 

http://www.firstcolonyfoundation.org/history/documents.aspx  and  http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/past_exhibitions/2007/archive_a_new_world.aspx

White’s paintings and Thos. Hariot’s observations were published as “A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (1590), Theodore DeBry, publisher.  See a brief bio of Hariot here

http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/hariot_thomas_ca_1560-1621#start_entry  

make sure to scroll down to the section on Roanoke and a Briefe and True Report.  

--Next:  Go to “Virtual Jamestown” to see a fascinating side-by-side comparison of White’s original paintings & the altered engravings DeBry used in his book.  Choose a few & click through to the details of the changes made and the explanations.

http://www.virtualjamestown.org/images/white_debry_html/jamestown.html  

--Reflect and write:  How would you describe the images of Native Americans in White's paintings?  How are they similar / different from the images of Native Americans our culture has today?  How do think DeBry’s changes affect the image & the perception of the Europeans viewing them?  Why do you suppose he made those changes?  What did he hope to accomplish? 

 

300 words. No work cited. All your personal thinking through those reading in above website.