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.