This pencil and watercolour drawing by the British architect James William Wild (1814–1892) shows seven stucco and glass windows. Four rectangular windows can be seen in the lower row and three square windows in the upper. Only five of the seven windows are completely drawn and coloured. The two windows on the right-hand side were only sketched in fine pencil outlines as their motifs are the mirror image of those on the left-hand side.
The two central windows show the motif of a cypress tree entwined by a tendril with blossoms; that on the right is less elaborate. These windows are flanked on each side by a window with the motif of a vase of flowers in a medallion and a lower section featuring two flower-star ornaments.
The central square window in the upper part of Wild’s drawing shows geometric ornament and is flanked by windows showing flowers in a quatrefoil. The colours green, purple, and pink predominate in all the windows, such that they form a harmonious ensemble. Wild has added a very fine pencil note in the upper right corner of the drawing.

The annotation in Wild’s drawing, ‘M. Abbot’, 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_444, IG_445, IG_447).