An etching of the cascade and grotto at Virginia Water. A little boy runs with dogs in the foreground and an ornamental bridge far left. Groups of figures walking about. Lettered below, 'The Cascade and Grotto', 'T. Sandby delin.' and 'P. Sandby & E. Rooker sculpt'. Trimmed inside platemark.

After leading the suppression of the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745–6, William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland was appointed Ranger of Windsor Great Park. He began a programme of landscaping in the Park, and commissioned Thomas Sandby, who had worked as a surveyor for the Duke in Scotland, to design a set of prints of the remodelled estate. Eight Views of Windsor Great Park was available to subscribers in December 1754, and presumably published the following year. Paul Sandby etched three of the final plates, including this one with Edward Rooker. The other engravers included François Vivares and Pierre-Charles Canot. For the other plates and frontispiece, see RCINs 814376-85. Paul Sandby provided figures for the prints: a chalk drawing of the two female figures in front of the grotto is in the Royal Collection (RCIN 914324).  A unique impression of an earlier version of this plate, a touched proof, taken from further back and including a large central tree, is also in the Royal Collection (RCIN 917947). For a discussion of the prints as estate portraiture, see Paul Sandby: Picturing Britain, exh cat, Royal Academy, National Galleries of Scotland and Nottingham Castle Museum, 2009-10, pp. 192-197.