This pencil and watercolour drawing by the British architect James William Wild (1814–1892) shows three stucco and glass windows with geometric motifs. The window on the left consists of two parts, framed by ribbon ornament: the larger lower area is ornamented with eight-pointed stars in blue and red, and above there is a rectangle with three stylized blossoms; the colours blue, red, and yellow predominate, and some smaller pieces of glass are in green. The centre window has geometric ornament, also in blue, yellow, green, and red; in the cartouche above, the artist may have attempted to trace an Arabic script in yellow. The window on the right-hand side shows delicate ornament in yellow, red, and blue, consisting of alternating yellow and blue eight-pointed stars surrounded by red squares. Wild has added pencil notes in the upper left corner of the drawing and below the central window that are barely legible.

The stucco and glass window on the left side in Wild's drawing corresponds to a window that the British Orientalist painter Frank Dillon (1832–1908) depicts within a niche on the left-hand side in his watercolour Recess in the Reception Room in the House of the Mufti Sheikh el Mahadi, Cairo (c. 1873, IG_99). The Swiss draughtsman and architect Theodor Zeerleder (1820–1868), who spent several months in Cairo in 1848 and 1850, depicted part of the same window in one of his pencil and watercolour drawings (IG_473).

Wild added a pencil note in the upper left corner of the drawing indicating that the stucco and glass window illustrated was located in the ‘House of the Mufti’ in Cairo – so named because it was owned by the supreme mufti of Egypt, Sheikh al-ʿAbbasi al-Mahdi (1827–1897) between 1847 and 1886 (Llewellyn, 1998, p. 154). Several drawings made by Wild in the 1840s bear witness to his intensive study of stucco and glass windows in Cairo; they are held today in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Wild treated windows located in this Cairene house in two other drawings (IG_437, IG_446).