This pencil and watercolour drawing by the British architect James William Wild (1814–1892) shows five rectangular stucco and glass windows in two rows; only three of the windows were executed in colour, with the others only being indicated in fine pencil lines.
In the lower row, three windows can be seen, each consisting of an upper rectangular and lower square section. In the centre, there 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. This window is very similar to the central window shown in another drawing by Wild (IG_444). The window is flanked on each side by a window with a motif of intersecting spirals interspersed with flowers (such as carnations in pink). Two squares with stylized flowers can be seen in the lower section of this window.
In the upper row are two windows with the motif of a cypress tree. The coloured window on the left side shows a cypress tree surrounded by a stem with various flowers as well as the perforation of the stucco (on the left side). The window on the right features the outline of a cypress tree in a fine pencil drawing.
The space around the windows has been used for enlarged details: flowers from the window with the stylized cypress tree have been painted in the upper part of the drawing, and a carnation similar to the one in the lower left window can be seen to the left. Wild has added a fine pencil note in the drawing.

The inscription in the drawing ‘Mr. Abbots rooms’ 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 treated windows associated with the name Abbott in several other drawings (IG_438, IG_439, IG_444, IG_447).