This pencil and watercolour drawing by the British architect James William Wild (1814–1892) shows five rectangular stucco and glass windows in two rows, of which only three were executed in colour, the other windows only being indicated with fine pencil lines.
In the lower row, three windows can be seen, each consisting of an upper rectangular and a lower square section. At the centre is a window with stylized flowers in a vase, set within an arch; in the square section below, the motif of a flower and star is depicted within a circle. The window is very similar to the central window shown in another drawing by Wild (IG_445). This window is flanked on each side by a window with a lattice ornament featuring flowers in hexagons, also set within an arch; the square section below depicts geometric star ornament with a central stylized blossom. Although that on the right is only indicated in its basic form in fine pencil strokes, it appears to have the same motif as the window on the left, such that the windows are mirror images of each other.
In the upper row, there are two square windows with star ornament; only the left-hand window is coloured.
The space around the windows has been used for enlarged details: in the upper part of the sheet there are hexagons with flowers (seen in the lower left window), and in the lower part of the sheet a stylized red blossom similar to the one in the left-hand window as well as a yellow flower shown in the central window. The artist indicated the perforation of the stucco panel in colour in a detailed manner. Furthermore, Wild has added fine pencil notes for some of the colours in this drawing.

The inscription in Wild’s drawing reading ‘Mr. Abbots rooms’ refers to Dr Henry William Charles Abbott (1812–1859), who was a British physician and collector of Egyptian antiquities. He ‘went to Egypt when quite a young man, on a scientific expedition, under the auspices of the British government’ and was ‘for nearly thirty years the only resident English physician in Cairo’ (Littell, 1859, p. 592). He lived in a ‘house in Cairo, filled with his splendid collection’: ‘He began the practice of collecting antiquities as an amusement, and it at length became a passion, so that he devoted his entire surplus income to the museum which he gathered around him, and which became at length one of the finest in the world.’ (Littell, 1859, p. 592). Today, some of the objects of the Abbott Collection are held in the Brooklyn Museum in New York; stucco and glass windows are not among them however. Wild treated windows associated with the name Abbott in several other drawings (IG_438, IG_439, IG_445, IG_447).