Frederick Swinton
Heights of Monterey, from the Saltillo Road Looking Twards the City. (From the West)

Heights of Monterey, from the Saltillo Road Looking Twards the City. (From the West)

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Heights of Monterey, from the Saltillo Road Looking Twards the City. (From the West)
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Heights of Monterey, from the Saltillo Road Looking Twards the City. (From the West)
  • from the Army Portfolio. By Capt. D. P. Whiting, 7th Inf'y, U.S.A. No. 1 (Army Portfolio)
Date1847
PlaceNew York, New York, United States
MediumLithograph with handcoloring on paper
DimensionsImage: 13 × 18 11/16 in. (33 × 47.5 cm)
Sheet: 18 15/16 × 23 15/16 in. (48.1 × 60.8 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, museum purchase funded by Mr. and Mrs. Ronald E. Huebsch
Object numberB.2005.18.2
Non exposé

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Department
Bayou Bend
Object Type
DescriptionDaniel Powers Whiting trained as a topographical artist at the United States Military Academy at West Point and served in the 7th U.S. Infantry under General Zachary Taylor during the Mexican-American War. Whiting recorded the Army’s advance from its station in Corpus Christi, Texas, and documented the capture of the Mexican city of Monterrey in 1846.
Provenance Research Ongoing Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Inscribed in printed ink, below image, left: D.P. WHITING CAPT. 7TH INF. DEL. / 1. Independance (or Castle) Hill. / 2. Lt. Col. Duncan's Battery of Light Artillery throwing shells / at the routed Mexican Cavalry. / 3. City of Monterey. / 4. "Sierra Silla", Saddle Mountain.
Recto: Inscribed in printed ink, below image, center: HEIGHTS OF MONTEREY, / from the Saltillo road looking towards the City. (from the West.) / (Worth's Division" moving into position under the guns of the enemy, after the action of "St. Jeronimo", on the morning of 21st Sept. 1846) / Entered according to the Act of Congress in the year 1847 by D.P. Whiting in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern district of New York. / LITH. & PRINTED IN COLORS BY G. & W. ENDICOTT, NEW YORK.
Recto: Inscribed in printed ink, below image, right: ON STONE BY F. SWINTON. / 5. Rancho, (or village) or St. Jeronimo. / 6. Federation Hill: First position carried by assault on the / afternoon of 21st Sept. / N.B. The second Division was composed of one Regt. of Texan Cavalry, / two Co's. of Tex.n Rangers, two Batteries of Lt. Artillery, the "Art.ly / Battalion", the 5th 7th and 8th Reg.'ts of Infantry, and one Company / of Louisiana Volunteers. / [No. 2]

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