This pencil and watercolour drawing by the British architect James William Wild (1814–1892) shows three stucco and glass windows and the cropped outline of a window on the right side of the drawing.
The two windows on the left feature delicate floral tendrils, and the colours blue, red, and yellow predominate here. The window on the right, which has only been drawn and coloured in part, shows a stylized vase with different kinds of flowers (a lily in the middle, carnations, tulips, and roses) placed on a table and flanked by two hyacinths. Below, there is a rectangular section that incorporates the motif of a cypress tree in the centre; the cypress tree is flanked on both sides by a vase with a pink carnation with a blue-violet tulip to either side. The motif of the vase of flowers can also be found in the cartouches of the surrounding frame, as can two hyacinths in the pointed arch. Wild has added several pencil notes to this drawing. The inscriptions below the windows are barely legible.

The inscription in the lower left corner of the drawing indicates that Wild drew these windows in the ‘House of the Mufti’ in Cairo – so named because it was owned by the supreme mufti of Egypt, Sheikh al-ʿAbbasi al-Mahdi (1827–1897) between 1847 and 1886 (Llewellyn, 1998, p. 154).
Several drawings made by Wild in the 1840s bear witness to his intensive study of stucco and glass windows in Cairo; they are held today in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Wild treated stucco and glass windows located in this Cairene house in two other drawings (IG_436, IG_446).