Recto: Inscribed in printed ink, below image, left: D.P. WHITING DEL CAPT. 7TH INF. / 1. "Sierra Silla". [Saddle Mountain, about 7 Miles distant.] / 2. Village of "Gaudaloupe". / 3. Citadel, [in possession of the Mexicans, firing upon Genl. Taylor's / position on the eastern side of the City.] / 4. Cathedral.

Recto: Inscribed in printed ink, below image, center: MONTEREY, / from Independence Hill, in the rear of the Bishop's Palace. / As it appeared on 23d. September, 1846. [Looking East.] / Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1847 by D.P. Whiting in the Clerks 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. Cemetery. / 6. Genl. Arista's Palace and Garden. / 7. Part of Federation Hill, [showing the point occupied by Major Scott, / with the 5th Infy. with one of the captured guns throwing / shot into the Main Plaza."] / [No. 4.]