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 259
nne a somewhat more formal anddecorative manner and a return to conventionalscrollwork began to assert itself, and this grewstronger under George I, when plaster veryfrequently displaced wood as the material forornamented wall linings. That makes sur-vivals all the more interesting, and such, inall… … THE CLOSE OF THE GRINLING GIBBONS PERIOD. 243 great alterations which gave a Palladian character to this Ehzabethan house were notcarried out by Leoni until about the year 1726, a little later than the incipience of hisreconstruction of Moor Park (Page 219). The general arrangement and decorative…
