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Answer Key: Handout 2.1, Part A

Reading a Primary Document

A. Reading a Painting

Artist: James Peachey

Name of Document:
Encampment of the Loyalists at Johnstown

Date

June 6, 1784

Key person

James Peachey

Details about key person

Surveyor, artist, British army officer

Information, Observations

1. Foreground observations

2. Foreground inferences

3. Background observations

4. Background inferences

5. Middle ground observations

6. Middle ground inferences

 

Man in uniform, woman in long dress, huge logs

Military people, women in camp

Shoreline, forest, river bank, village

Someone has already settled here in a European-type village

Several tents, a cow, canoes arriving

Large camp, lots of people, appears organized

Main ideas I can infer from this painting

1. Loyalists moved, camped on their way to new homes

2. Loyalists travelled in large, organized group

Questions I still have

1. Where have these people come from?

2. Where are they going/

3. What have they experienced before this?


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