Judging from dated inscriptions on various extant studies, Bodmer seems to have stayed in the New Orleans area approximately ten days. Maximilian's subsequent account indicates "about eight days" and states that the artist embarked on the steamer Arkansas for Baton Rouge on January 22. This view of the lower Mississippi, dated January 21, is presumed to have been made at or near New Orleans. It depicts types of craft then in use on the river. What appears to be the head of an Indian is faintly outlined at left center

Bodmer made several sketches of the mouth of the Arkansas River in passing downstream toward Natchez. Today this aspect of the river is greatly altered, and a modern ship channel and system of locks carries Mississippi barge traffic on the Arkansas to just below Tulsa, Oklahoma