Grinling Gibbons and the woodwork of his age (1648-1720) (1914)
Tipping, H. Avray (Henry Avray), 1855-1933 · London : "Country life" and George Newnes ; New York : C. Scribner's sons · leaf 110
and greatcountry mansions had unpainted oak for their most sumptuous fittings. It is grievous that inmost cases the spirit of let well alone has not prevailed, and Cassiobury and Windsor are onlytwo of the many cases where Gibbons nervous and almost microscopic finish is hidden undera deleterious… … 5.—GRINLING GIBBONSJAMES II. STATUE OF 94 GRINLING GIBBONS AND THE WOODWORK OF HIS AGE. Although wood was the medium which Gibbons preferred, which enabled his genius toexpress itself most freely and which thus established him in the temple of Fame, yet it was byno means the only one in which he…
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