This lithograph, made by Émile Prisse d’Avennes (1807–1879), shows a rectangular stucco and glass window with the motif of a stylized cypress tree entwined by a yellow tendril with red blossoms, within an arch. The holes drilled in the stucco are indicated with many small dots. The arched frame consists of geometric forms made of pieces of red and green glass. Stylized blossoms can be seen in the four corners of the rectangular frame. The stucco and glass window is encased in a wooden frame with interlace ornament. Prisse d’Avennes drew the entire window in a fine pencil drawing, but concentrated mainly on the right-hand side of the symmetrical window when colouring it. There is an annotation on the left side which says “Modèle à suivre” (template to follow).

This lithograph, preserved in Émile Prisse d’Avennes’s album Art Arabe. Dessins: Arabesques, 5 held at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, was a coloured proof for the French archaeologist’s book L’Art arabe d’après les monuments du Kaire depuis le VIIe siècle jusqu’à la fin du XVIIIe, published in 1877 (vol. 3, pl. CXLIV, IG_42). Prisse d’Avennes (1869–77, vol. 1, p. 278) states that the stucco and glass window illustrated comes from the Sayyida Zaynab Mosque in Cairo.
A second proof for the same plate (IG_132), which is identical apart from the slightly brighter colours, shows Prisse d’Avenne’s careful preparation of the plates. As the annotation ‘modèle à suivre’ on the present lithograph indicates, this was the template chosen for the plate in the book. The plate shows the same matte colours, and the spaces between the black contour lines and the coloured areas are similarly lighter than in the other preparatory lithograph (IG_132).