VIRGINIA CARTOGRAPHY. 



mation from the excellent reprint by Sabin, and also from that 

 by the Holbein Society. 



It is only in the English text that the artist is called White; 

 in the others he is named With, and the same spelling of the 

 name occurs on all the maps which are in Latin, including the 

 map to the English text. All the information we have con- 

 cerning the artist, whom I shall call With, is found in this book. 



In an examination of many volumes of more recent date I 

 find, only one notice of his life, which is evidently taken from 

 De Bry, and is entered under the name With in Nagler's Kiinst- 

 ler-lexicon, 1851. 



I shall mention all that is found in De Bry relating to the 

 artist, most of it being on the title-page to the plates; I quote 

 from Harlot's text: 



" The trve pictvres and fashions of the people in that part of 

 America now called Virginia, (etc.) Translated out of Latin into 

 English by Richard Hacklvit. Diligentlye collected and draoune 

 by lohn White, who was sent thiter speciallye and for the same 

 purpose by the said Sir Walter Ralegh, the year abouesaid 1585, 

 and also the year 1588, now cutt in copper and first published 

 by Theodore De Bry att his wone chardges." 



Further on in the title to the five pictures of the Pictes, 

 a reference is made to " the painter of whom I have had the 

 first of the inhabitants of Virginia, give my allso thees 5 figures." 



In the preface " To the gentle reader," we find also the fol- 

 lowing: ■ 



" Consideringe, Therefore, that yt was a thing worthie of ad- 

 miration, I was very willinge to offer vnto you the trve pictvres 

 of those people wich by the helfe of Maister Richard Hakluyt 

 (etc) who first encouraged me to publish the worke, I creaued 

 out of the verye original of Maister Ihon White an Englisch 

 paynter, who was sent into the countrye by the queenes Maies- 

 tye, onlye to draw the description of the place by lynelye to 

 describe the shapes of the inhabitants their apparell, manners of 

 liuinge, and fashions, att the speciall charges of the worthye 

 knight, Sir Walter Ralegh, from te yeers 1584, to the ende of the 

 years 1588." 



That the text was written to explain the pictures admits of 

 no doubt from information on plates 6, 10 and 18. and it is 



