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 168
ticular branch of the decorative arts, but it is very difficult, after acareful examination of these cupboard doors, not to place them in the very first rank of piercedand modelled scrollwork, and to take note of their distinct originality and differentiation,both in design and handling, from the… … FIG. 142.—DOORS TO CUPBOARD LIBRARY OF QUEEns COLLEGE, OXON. WREN AND GIBBONS AT THE UNIVERSITIES. To review the whole of the Late Renaissance woodwork at Oxford were to fill a volume.The magnificently conceived, but not elaborately enriched, fittings in the library of Dr. Aldrichsown college, the…
