A watercolour drawing of the North Terrace, Windsor Castle, looking west towards Queen Elizabeth's Gallery, Winchester Tower, and the Canon's houses. Groups of figures, soldiers and a boy with a dog are walking on the terrace. A group of women and children are seated on the low wall to the right. In the distance is the church of St Andrew's, Clewer and the Thames Valley towards the hills beyond Maidenhead. Inscribed on the verso in pencil, 'Windsor Castle Terrace'.

Sandby made many watercolours, drawings and bodycolours of the North Terrace, looking both east and west, from the 1760s until his death. A similar view, with different figures, appears in a gouache from the Joseph Banks collection (1876 sale, lot 12), formerly in the collections of Colonel Hibbert, the Hon. Sir Richard Molyneux and HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (RCIN 453778). An outline etching of that view was included in a series of etchings published in 1777 (for example, British Museum 1904,0819.587). 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. 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.