This pencil and watercolour drawing by the British architect James William Wild (1814–1892) depicts two rectangular stucco and glass windows. The window on the left shows stylized roses in a medallion and hyacinths in the four corners; it is accompanied on the left and lower sides by a scale with numbers. The window on the right shows the motif of a vase with different flowers (roses, lilies, and carnations) within an arch decorated with geometric ornament. Wild made studies of individual flowers, on a larger scale, on the right-hand side in fine pencil drawings. For example, he abstracted the rose blossom at the centre of the left window into geometric shapes. The colours red, blue, and yellow predominate in both windows. Wild has added a pencil note in the lower left corner of the drawing.

Francine Giese (2022, p. 97) has compared the window shown on the left side of this sketch by Wild with an Islamic stucco and glass window (V&A, 1200-1883) of similar design that formed part of the lot of Cairene stucco and glass windows bought for the South Kensington Museum in London in 1883 by Edward William Lane’s nephew Stanley Lane-Poole (1854–1931). Wild also recorded the windows of this house (‘Beyt Hassan Pasha’) in other drawings (IG_440, IG_441, IG_448).

Further literature:
Thomas, 2013, fig. 10.
Giese, 2021, fig. 5.