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 212
we are told that his only pleasures were his workand his cups. ... It was no unusual occurrence to find him for days and nights in astate of drunken insensibility, clothed in rags and associating with chimney-sweepers andtrampers. How such habits left him the nervous steadiness and delicacy of… … FIG. 188,—BELTON: CHIMNEY-PIECE ON RIGHT OF THE H.\LL. ige GRINLING GIBBONS AND THE WOODWORK OF HIS AGE. to say that his carving covered every conceivable space in the room, wrote the late Hon. PercyWyndham, uncle to the present owner. Shortly after my fathers death in 1869 my latebrother took down…
