The British physician and collector Henry William Charles Abbott (1807–1859) settled in Cairo in 1838. He started collecting Egyptian antiquities and transformed his house into a museum, visited especially by British and American tourists. By the 1850s, his collection had grown to some 1,200 artefacts, and Abbott decided to transfer them to the United States of America. Only in 1860, after his death, was the collection purchased by The New York Historical Society, and in 1937 it was transferred to The Brooklyn Museum (Bierbier, 2019, p. 1).
Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright (1852, pp. 59–62) reported in 1852 that Abbott’s house was formerly inhabited by viceroy Muhammad Ali (d.1848) and gives a description of the house mentioning stucco and glass windows: ‘[...] there are large and deep recesses, in which the floor is raised a foot or a foot and a half above the general level. [...] There is a large window in each, filling up the whole of one side; the upper half consisting of stained glas, and the lower of the open wooden fret-work [...].’
During his stay in Cairo in the years 1844–1847, James Wild (1814–1892) made several drawings of the house, especially its stucco and glass windows.

Bierbrier, M. (ed.)(2019). Who was who in Egyptology. London: Egypt Exploration Society.

Wainwright, J. M. (1852). The Land of Bondage. Its Ancient Monuments and Present Condition: Being the Journal of a Tour in Egypt. New York: D. Appleton and Company.