Red Lion Hotel

This architectural sketch by Arnold William Brunner depicts the Red Lion Hotel, rendered in pen and ink with atmospheric shading. The drawing captures a seaside establishment with multiple structures, including the main hotel building, outbuildings, and fortified walls, populated with period figures engaged in daily activity. Sailboats and vessels occupy the water beyond. Brunner's precise linework and spatial composition demonstrate the technical draftsmanship required of late-nineteenth-century American architects, whose preliminary sketches served both as design proposals and documentation of proposed developments.