Arriving at Dutotsburgh on the evening of August 23, the travelers stayed overnight at the local tavern. In the morning Maximilian met the old Frenchman Dutot for whom the town had been named, and Bodmer made a quick sketch of Dutot's house during the morning of August 24

At the time of Maximilian's visit, the once extensive Bonaparte estate consisted of about 300 acres of garden and park land. Bodmer made a second landscape in this vicinity on the afternoon of July 23. This was later reproduced as Vignette II in the atlas of aquatints that accompanied the publication of Maximilian's travels in North America.