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 246
hesitatingly set down to Gibbons byHorace Walpole, who certainly had a trained eye, and had a strong partiality for Gibbons as adecorative artist. A long and minute study of the Chatsworth carvings might produce certaintywhere doubt has been expressed here as to whether the undeniable, if slight,… … FIG. 218.—CHATSWORTH : ONE OF THE CH.APEL CiVLLERYDOORW.iYS. 230 GRINLING GIBBONS AND THE WOODWORK OF HIS AGE. Certainly as to the point lace cravat there can be no doubt. Horace Walpole was right inattributing it to Gibbons, though he may only have guessed, and guessed wrongly, how it cameto be at…
