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 167
is difficult to say, but he called them coarse andeven vulgar, whereas the detail illustrations will show them to be exceptionally crisp, nervousand skilful in the management of the chisel. The carving is in oak in two layers, the backcarved with somewhat flatish acanthus scrolls, but the front… … FIG. 141. -A BOOKCASE END, QUEEN S COLLEGE,OXON. WREN AND GIBBONS AT THE UNIVERSITIES. springs in extraordinarily delicate and highly modelled curves, sweeps and folds that put usin mind of Tijous contemporary ironwork. Indeed, the carver almost certainly had suchironwork in his mind when he…
