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The Carte of All the Coast of Virginia
About this map
- Creator
- Theodor de Bry
- Date created
- 1585–1586
- License
- This work is believed to be in the public domain. Users are advised to make their own copyright assessment and to understand their rights to fair use.
- Source
- Original image housed by Documenting the American South / UNC Libraries
See this map in context
- Two worlds: Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony: First part of a North Carolina history text for secondary students, covering the land, American Indians before contact with Europeans, Spanish exploration, the Roanoke colony, and the Columbian Exchange. (Page 4.6)
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- Search LEARN NC for colonial, drawings, explorers, John White, maps, North Carolina, and Virginia.
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- See our collection of articles on visual literacy for ideas on using photographs meaningfully in the classroom.
Engraving by Theodor de Bry, based on John White’s ca. 1585–1586 map of the coast of Virginia and North Carolina. The engraving was published in Thomas Hariot’s 1588 book A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia.
Theodor de Bry was a Flemish-born engraver and publisher who based his illustrations for Hariot’s book on the New World paintings of colonist John White. These depictions of the landscapes and residents of North Carolina provided Europeans with some of their earliest notions of what the North American continent looked like.
