River at Milford

Arnold William Brunner's pen sketch captures a riverside landscape with assured draftsmanship. The composition demonstrates the artist's attention to atmospheric perspective, with foreground vegetation rendered in fine detail while distant trees and banks dissolve into looser, more suggestive marks. Brunner's approach—combining precise linear work with gestural passages—reflects late nineteenth-century sketching practice, where artists used paper studies to explore light, composition, and natural effects before committing to finished works. The evident staining and wear of the paper suggests this was a working drawing, a document of artistic process rather than a presentation piece.