This watercolour by the German Orientalist painter Fritz Hauck (1852–1909) from 1897 shows the interior of the mosque in the funerary complex of Sultan al-Ashraf Qaytbay (877–79 AH / 1472–74 AD), with one circular and three pointed-arch stucco and glass windows in the mihrab wall: the circular window above the mihrab is flanked by one pointed-arch window on the left and two pointed-arch windows on the right. The windows appear to have predominantly geometric motifs, indicated by coloured dots in red, blue, yellow, and green. Vegetal decoration with stylized flowers can be identified in the two lower sections of the window on the right-hand side. The watercolour is signed, dated, and inscribed in the lower right-hand area with a brush, in red.

According to an inscription at the lower right of this watercolour by Hauck, it was created in Cairo on 15 February 1897. The interior of the funerary mosque represented here was also painted, for example, by the American painter Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859–1937) (Interior of a Mosque, 1897, oil on canvas, 52.1 x 66 cm, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 2005.92) in the same year and captured in a photograph by the Armenian Orientalist painter and photographer G. Lekegian (active c.1880–1920) (V&A, 3457-1920). The mosque’s interior was also documented in the publication Architecture arabe ou Monuments du Kaire by the French architect Pascal Coste (1787–1879) (pl. XXXIII) (IG_188).