Granada

Arnold William Brunner's architectural sketch captures a Spanish hillside settlement with whitewashed buildings and terracotta roofs arranged along a sloping street. The drawing employs watercolor and ink to render shadows and volumetric form, with figures scattered throughout providing human scale. Brunner, an American architect and prolific travel sketcher, documented European and Mediterranean sites during the 1890s. His work reflects the period's fascination with picturesque foreign landscapes, rendered in the loose, atmospheric style favored by architects and artists working between academic training and modern plein-air practice. Such travel drawings served both personal record and professional reference for architectural design.