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Bodmer executed a watercolor of Cape Lands End at sunset on the evening of May 23 . By the morning of the following day, England's southwestern coast appeared only dimly in the distance.

Cape Lands End, Cornwall

According to Maximilian's account, Bodmer made a number of drawings of Boston Bay and the distant shoreline and city of Boston on the morning of July 4. One of these features a view of the island in the harbor from which a flag telegraph transmitted signals to vessels.

Telegraph Hill

Nearing Boston early on the morning of July 4, Bodmer executed several hasty studies of the approach to Boston Bay. This distant view of the shoreline would be difficult to identify today were it not for the descriptive caption on the reverse.

View of Boston Bay

The Janus passed Cape Hart or Hart Point, England, around eleven o'clock on the morning of May 22. Between four and five in the afternoon, Bodmer made a sketch of the English coastline off Dodbrook near a large promontory known as Bold Head.

Cape Bold Head, England

Sailing in a southwesterly direction along the French coast, the Janus passed the port of Calais on the morning of May 19. By midafternoon the ship was nearing Boulogne. On May 20 it passed near the Isle of Wight around four in the afternoon. Bodmer executed a view of the northern prospect of this island and another of the French coast opposite as the Janus made its way down the English Channel toward Cape Hart, England.

French Coast opposite the Isle of Wight

Sailing in a southwesterly direction along the French coast, the Janus passed the port of Calais on the morning of May 19. By midafternoon the ship was nearing Boulogne. On May 20 it passed near the Isle of Wight around four in the afternoon.

Isle of Wight

Nearly 100 passengers embarked on the Boston for New York City on the afternoon of July 8. They arrived at their destination at noon on the following day. Bodmer's view of New York harbor from Staten Island was later reproduced as Vignette XXXIII in the atlas of aquatints that accompanied the publication of Maximilian's North American travel account in 1839-43.

Entry to the Bay of New York from Staten Island