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 198
ich bears the initials J.R. beneath a crown.The same memento of the short reign of the last Stewart King appears on the very fine plasterceiling. That ceiling was designed with a plain centre, no doubt intended to be filled with anallegorical painting. This was never done, and late in the… … 182 GRINLING GIBBONS AND THE WOODWORK OF HIS AGE. alteration ; but with these exceptions the room remains as Wren designed it, as Cheere fittedit and as Emmett and Morgan carved it in the days of James II. On the walls is an interestingseries of portraits of Stewart and Hanoverian sovereigns. The…
