A pen and ink and watercolour drawing of the North Terrace of Windsor Castle, with the west end of the Queen Elizabeth's Gallery with its lantern window (remodelled under Sir Jeffrey Wyatville's redevelopment of the Castle for George IV). Groups of figures on the terrace including several soldiers, two fashionably-dressed female figures and a gentleman in greatcoat and spectacles. On a wash-line bordered mount. EVII stamp (Lugt 901) at right corner. 

A. P. Oppé suggested that the drawing is a copy after an aquatint of the North Terrace published by Sandby on 1 September 1776 (British Museum 1904,0819.752), a print that was based on a painting of The Terrace of Windsor looking Eastward exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1774 (no. 260). Another drawing, possibly also a copy after the aquatint, is in the British Museum (1904,0819.101) which is attributed to Sandby although much later in date. Sandby made many versions of this view of the North Terrace, a fashionable promenade that Matthew Craske has described as 'a giant emblem of political liberty, bespeaking circumstances in which the exclusive resort of kings and queens had become a wider form for public pleasures.' See J. Bonehill & S. Daniels, Paul Sandby: Picturing Britain, exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts, 2009, p.52. A bodycolour of the subject was sold at Sotheby's, 7-8 July 2011, lot 318. In the Royal Collection another drawing after an aquatint is RCIN 914718.