[Full entry reads: "An elegant Landscape at Sun-set, with a Gothic Building, a basket of Fruit upset consisting of Plums, Pears, Peaches, &c. A bird's Nest with Eggs; Butterflies seeming to fly in the air, the colouring surpassing even that of Nature, by J. Van Huysum, the greatest Artist that ever existed, and probably ever will exist."]
Catalogue of M. Paff's Gallery of Paintings. No. 221, Broadway, opposite the Park. New-York, May 15, 1812. Conrad Printer.