lO VIRGINIA CARTOGRAPHY. 



With, an ingenious painter, whose sketches of the natives, their 

 habits and modes of life, were taken with beauty and exactness, 

 and were the means of encouraging an interest in Virginia by 

 diffusing a knowledge of its productions." 



A few pages further on Bancroft refers to the Governor, John 

 White, showing thereby he recognized a difference. 



The following account of With, from Edward E. Hale, in 

 Archgeologia Americana, v. 4, i860, pp. 20-23, contains much 

 that is of interest: 



" I had heard the suspicions which hasty criticism has thrown 

 on the genuineness of the drawings in de Bry's great volume. 

 I was glad to dispel these suspicions by finding in the British 

 Museum the originals of some of these drawings, and many 

 more of the same series. In a report which I presented to the 

 Antiquarian Society in April, i860, I gave some account of them. 



" The collection consists of one hundred and twelve drawings, 

 in water-color, very carefully preserved. They came to the 

 Museum with the collection of Sir Hans Sloane, and the volume 

 has this entry, which is believed to be in his handwriting: 



" ' The original drawings of the habits, towns, customs, of the 

 West Indians, and of the plants, birds, fishes, &c., found in 

 Groenland, Virginia, Guiana, &c., by Mr. John White, who was 

 a painter, and accompanied Sir Walter Raleigh in his voyage. 

 See the preface to the first part of ' America ' of Theodore de 

 Bry, or the ' Description of Virginia,' where some of these 

 draughts are curiously wrought by that graver.' 



" If there were no title, the identity of many of the paintings 

 with the prints in De Bry would show that they were by the 

 same hand. That those are copied from these is shown by the 

 fact that the prints sometimes reversed the paintings, giving the 

 right hand for the left. This collection is much larger than 

 that in De Bry, numbering nearly one hundred American pic- 

 tures; from which a part only were selected to be copied for 

 engraving. In De Bry there are only twenty-three. For several 

 of the prints in De Bry there are no originals here, and I am 

 disposed to think that the artist copied from these originals 

 those which were sent to Germany; that he sent also some of 

 the originals; and that the copies from which the engravers 

 worked are not in this collection. 



