This drawing shows Windsor Castle as it looked around twenty years after Henry's death. Although the landscape in the foreground is imaginary, the representation of the Castle is accurate, and may be based on sketches taken by Hoefnagel when he visited England in 1568-9. The view is taken from the north and shows St George's Chapel to the far right. Henry VIII granted the Dean and Canons permission to insert a gate into the north wall of the Castle in 1521. The gate can be seen in the wall to the left of the Chapel building on Hoefnagel's drawing.

This is one of the earliest representations of Windsor Castle, and probably precedes two others of the same view, one executed in woodcut and included in the second edtion of Foxe's Book of Martyres, 1570, and the second in the background of Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder's engraving of Queen Elizabeth in Procession with the Knights of the Garter, dated 1576. An allegorical 'cabinet miniature' (gouache on vellum) of 1571 by Hoefnagel, which includes a detailed depiction of Windsor Castle perhaps based on this drawing, appeared at Sotheby's, London, 8 July 2015, lot 11.