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 33
-leaved capitals and foliated scrolls, than England had been, up to thistime, accustomed to. The staircase (Fig. 11), too, offers an improved example, as regardsexecution, of the new system of pierced panelling. That at Forde is fully equal, if not superior,in design, but it is rather more coarsely… … FIG. 12.—MEDALLION HEAD OFINIGO JONES. GRINLING GIBBONS AND THE WOODWORK OF HIS AGE. ly CHAPTER III.ENGLANDS DEBT TO THE CONTINENT. IT is set down against us, with a good deal of truth, that we are not a nation of artists, thatour art has come to us from the Continent and that when, for any reason,…
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