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 29
His influence in the decorative sphere was also strong upon Grinling Gibbons,although Gibbons developed a good deal of change in principle as well as in detail. Inigo Jonesoriginated a style. Gibbons a new manner of treating it. At the same time, in speaking of wood-work we must not dwell too much… … FIG. S. THi; CHAPEL SCREEN, FORDE ABBEY. CIRCA 1652. and though it was his influence which led to its most ambitious and finished manifestations inEngland this was not at all his intention. It was not the outcome of his views, and when hisviews fully prevailed, more than half a century after his…
