Garden Wall, Granada

Architect and designer Arnold William Brunner sketched this Spanish garden wall during his travels in Granada. The ink drawing captures architectural details—the tiled roof, Gothic tower, and cypress trees—with the quick, economical line work characteristic of working sketches. Brunner rendered vegetation and distant landscape through parallel hatching and varied mark-making, techniques common to late-nineteenth-century architectural study. This sheet demonstrates how American designers documented European precedents firsthand, collecting visual references for their own work during an era when travel abroad shaped American architectural practice and design education.