This pencil and watercolour drawing by the British architect James William Wild (1814–1892) shows five stucco and glass windows, arranged symmetrically. In the centre, there is a window with the motif of a vase of flowers; this is flanked below by two windows with the motif of a cypress tree entwined by a tendril with blossoms and above by two further windows with stylized flower stems. In a fine pencil drawing on the left-hand side, Wild studied the central rose blossom, which can be seen in the coloured window in the upper row.
Only three of the five stucco and glass windows – the central one and the two on the left – are completely coloured. The two on the right-hand side were only sketched in fine pencil outlines, with the lower one coloured with a little pink, as their motifs are the mirror image of those in the windows on the left-hand side. The colours green, yellow, purple, and pink predominate in all the windows, with the result that their motifs and colour form a harmonious ensemble. Wild has added several pencil notes in this drawing.

The inscription in Wild’s drawing, ‘Mr. abbots room’, refers to Dr Henry William Charles Abbott (1812–1859), who was a British physician and collector of Egyptian antiquities. Abbott ‘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 also treated windows associated with the name Abbott in several other drawings (IG_439, IG_444, IG_445, IG_447).