A watercolour drawing of the North Terrace, Windsor Castle, looking west towards Queen Elizabeth's Gallery, Winchester Tower, and the Canon's houses. A woman and two girls are on the left, a soldier in a red coat is seated on the bench at far right. In the distance is the church of St Andrew's, Clewer and the Thames Valley towards the hills beyond Maidenhead. The sheet is mounted on a yellow and grey wash line bordered mount of a type associated with works at the Paul Sandby estate sale in 1811.

The same view, with similar figures appears in a bodycolour at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven (B1981.25.2693). A pencil drawing of the same subject is in the Royal Collection (RCIN 914523). Another version of the same view appeared at Sotheby's, London, 9 July 2011, lot 318. Other watercolours of the same subject in the Royal Collection are RCINs 914524 and 914525. Sandby made many watercolours, drawings and bodycolours of the North Terrace, looking both east and west, from the 1760s until his death. The appearance of the terrace, described in contemporary guidebooks as 'the noblest walk in Europe' (Joseph Pote, Les Delices de Windsore, 1763), has changed little since the eighteenth century.