The plume from Roanoke Island “put us in good ... off an English doll in one of many scenes painted by John White, the Lost Colony’s artist governor. White’s realistic portraits of Native ...

Though the 1587 journey went well, a small group led by Roanoke Colony Governor John White returned to England to gather supplies — and found the colony abandoned when they returned in 1590.

John White likely did this study of a male Atlantic loggerhead on a stop in the West Indies en route to "Virginia" in 1585. "Their heads, feet, and tails look very ugly, like those of a venomous ...