Europe's view of the colonies - by Swati Pandey
Retained by none other than Sir Walter Raleigh, John White first traveled to North America in 1585, landing on the shores of what is now North Carolina. In a series of watercolors, he opened up the New World: Algonquin Indians and their villages, the local flora and fauna. White became, in effect, the eyes of the British empire, influencing how Europe saw the unexplored land.
Beginning March 15, the British Museum in London will exhibit more than 70 of White's paintings to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the first permanent English settlement in the New World, at Jamestown in Virginia.
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