Robert Sayer's plan of Jerusalem is just as rich and detailed as the map of the Holy Land he produced around the same time. The central image offers a colourful, isometric view of the Holy City during the Biblical era; the numerous vignettes across the image illustrate scriptural events from as early as King David's battle against the Philistines (II Samuel 5:17- 24), all the way up to the Holy Ghost visiting the Apostles after Jesus's resurrection (Acts 2).

In addition to these scenes, all of which are accompanied by a brief descriptive caption and a Bible reference, a vast number of buildings and sites both within and outside the city walls are shown in equal detail, from Herod's grave, depicted as a simple tomb, to the Temple of Solomon itself, which is presented as a colossal structure and seems to have been drawn after Juan Bautista Villalpando. For a full description of Villalpando's influential plan of the Temple, see item 606. The original was of course two-dimensional, but Sayer's three-dimensional rendering has certain resonances with the Medieval fortress style imagined by the earlier cartographer. The huge scale on which it has been drawn represents not its actual size but its significance as the religious and historic heart of Jerusalem.

Several non-religious buildings also appear across the plan, such as the Castle of Antiochus atop Mount Acra, which was built by the Seleucid ruler Antiochus Epiphanes after he sacked the city in 168 BC, and "the hospital", which presumably refers to the Crusader hospital established in the twelfth century by the Knights Hospitaller.

Bordering the image is a genealogy of Christ, running counterclockwise and tracing his lineage all the way from Adam, the first man created by God. Below this is "a description of the City of Jerusalem in general and of its most eminent places in particular", which identifies 25 sites of particular importance, such as "the garden of olives, where Christ was in his agony" and "the palace of Pilate & Lieutenants of Rome, where Christ was falsly accused and comdemned to be crucified by the princes and people of the Jews".

Furthermore, the left- and right-hand margins are filled with numerous vignettes showing scenes, figures, and objects recorded in scripture: the Tower of Babel; the Atlar of Burnt Sacrifices; the bronze laver where priests were instructed to wash their hands and feet before sacrifice; the inside of the Tabernacle; the Holy of Holies; Moses and Aaron standing either side of the stone tablets; the Table of Showbread; the Golden Candelabra; two shekels; the Ark of the Covenant; the Brazen Sea; and the siege of Jerusalem during the Roman-Jewish war. First published by Henry Overton in 1717, the plan was later reissued by successive London map dealers including Robert Sayer, and, as here, George Thompson, bearing a date of 1797.