View on the Delaware near Bordentown
Description
Maximilian left New York on July 16 and took passage by steamer to Amboy, New Jersey. Near Amboy he boarded a stagecoach for Philadelphia, and on July 18 he traveled to neighboring Bordentown, New Jersey. On July 19 he visited the va-cant estate of Joseph Bonaparte, Napoleon's older brother. On the evening of July 22, Bodmer arrived at the Bordentown tavern where Maximilian was staying. The next day on a walking tour with the Prince along the Delaware, he made two watercolor studies of the landscape in the vicinity of the Bonaparte estate.
Original German Title
None
Medium
watercolor on paper
Dimensions
11 3/4 x 16 3/4
Call No.
JAM.1986.49.24
Approximate Date of Creation
23rd July 1832