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The question of what artistic images can really tell us about European perceptions of Native Americans is methodologically complex, because, as argued in this paper, what was perceived is not to be taken as being identical with what was represented. White’s paintings are so exceptional in their quality and closeness to an observed experience that they can tell us a great deal about this problem. At the same time, however, because of this very exceptionality, it will always be risky to analyze them in isolation from the wider contemporary corpus of texts and images about the New World. Therefore, I will propose a wider perspective informed by earlier materials, followed by a close analysis of the relation between text and image, and of the role of artistic licence, in the creation of the Harriot–White corpus.
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