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 233
ton Court Palace, which it resemblesin scale. It is probably now set lower than it was originally, and yet it reaches up to a pomtquite sixteen feet from the ground and the width from out-to-out of the carving at its widestpart—that is, the outstretched wings of the hanging birds—is eight feet. The… … FIG. 208.--SUDBURY hall: carved frame in the drawing-room. GRIN LING GIBBONS IN VARIOUS COUNTRY HOUSES. 217 quality, for nothing can exceed the finish of the birds or the delicacy of the smaller growths,such as the blackberries on their dainty stalks. Yet the whole is firm and strong, the…
