A pencil and watercolour drawing of the Norman Gate, Windsor Castle, seen from the Moat Garden. The Deputy Housekeeper's residence is on the right, and the grassy bank of the Round Tower in the foreground. The sheet of paper is mounted on a second sheet, with a single black ink line border. Inscribed on the mount in pencil, possibly in the artist's hand, 'Towers over Queen Elizabeths Gate Windsor Castle' and 'House Keepers apartments' and faintly 'Towers over'. Numbered at the top of the mount at the centre in pencil, 198. Inscribed on the verso in pen and ink, 'Part of Windsor Castle P.S.' A faint pencil drawing of a row of tents.

There is a watercolour and a bodycolour of the same subject in the Royal Collection (RCIN 914535) and the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven (B1981.25.2691). A pencil drawing of the same subject, is in the Staatliche Museen Greiz (E 469). There is also a view of the Norman Gateway from the approach to the North Terrace (RCIN 914534).

The dry ditch surrounding the Round Tower is well sheltered and the northern area has long been used as a flower garden. The southern ditch was formerly used for the cultivation of fruit and vegeatbles, but in 1836 Sir Jeffrey Wyatville refused to be held responsible if this caused the collapse of the Round Tower and its boundary wall. The apartment seen at the back of the garden with the mid-eighteenth century pedimented facade was the Home of the Deputy Governor and then Castle Housekeeper. At this date it was the home of Lady Mary Churchill, Horace Walpole's half-sister, in her role as Castle Housekeeper.