Virginia Dare
First child born in the Americas to English parents. August 18, 1587.
Elizabethan Gardens, Manteo, NC, USA.
This Carrara marble statue of Virginia Dare is the sculptor’s idealized version of what Virginia Dare would have looked like had she grown to womanhood. An American sculptor, Maria Louise Lander sculpted the piece in Rome in 1859. It has had an incredibly hectic existence, including two years at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean due to a shipwreck off the coast of Spain. From there the statue spent a number of years in the State Hall of History in Raleigh, NC in the early twenties where it was viewed a controversial work of art. After
a short stay with the Pulitzer prize-winning Paul Green at his estate “The Oaks” near Chapel Hill, NC he decided to donate it to The Elizabethan Gardens. The statue of Virginia Dare finally came to rest about one hundred years after its creation by Miss. Lander.
Virginia Dare
First child born in the Americas to English parents. August 18, 1587.
Elizabethan Gardens, Manteo, NC, USA.
This Carrara marble statue of Virginia Dare is the sculptor’s idealized version of what Virginia Dare would have looked like had she grown to womanhood. An American sculptor, Maria Louise Lander sculpted the piece in Rome in 1859. It has had an incredibly hectic existence, including two years at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean due to a shipwreck off the coast of Spain. From there the statue spent a number of years in the State Hall of History in Raleigh, NC in the early twenties where it was viewed a controversial work of art. After
a short stay with the Pulitzer prize-winning Paul Green at his estate “The Oaks” near Chapel Hill, NC he decided to donate it to The Elizabethan Gardens. The statue of Virginia Dare finally came to rest about one hundred years after its creation by Miss. Lander.