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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 250

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FIG. 221. PANEL OF THE SCREEN. Gibbons. CONTEMPORARY WOODWORK IN COUNTRY HOUSES. 233 screen is a well designed, though very plain, example of the day. In complete contrastwith its simplicity is the rich decoration of the woodwork which was at the same periodintroduced into the College Chapel. The… … FIG. 222.—HURSLEY : DOORWAY AND P.TOELLING IN THE HALL. College--known as School —is 1684, and the refitting of the chapel was, no doubt,undertaken then or rather later. Wren had a considerable number of similar undertakingson hand, of which the earliest was that at Pembroke College, Cambridge…

Gibbons, Grinling, 1648-1721 · Wood-carving · Interior decoration

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