...the walls is quite wonderful. It was of him that Walpole justly said, ' that he was the first artist who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers,...elements, with a free disorder natural to each species/ The lime tree is still, however, used by the carver, and we hopo that the art of wood carving may gradually...

...walls is quite wonderful. It was of him that Walpole justly said, ' that he was the first artist whp gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers,...elements, with a free disorder natural to each species.' The lime tree is still, however, used by the carver, and we hope that the art of wood carving may gradually...

...there is no instance of a man who could give to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and chain together the various productions of the elements with a free disorder natural to each species." And after having enumerated others of his celebrated works, such as those at Windsor, Chatsworth, Burleigh,...

...it has continued. Cibber, the sculptor and architect; Gibbons, who gave, as Horace Walpole says, ' to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and...elements with a free disorder natural to each species,' left there the most beautiful efforts of their art •was distinguished as a •wit, a scholar, a soldier,...

...there is no instance of a man who could give to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and chain together the various productions of the elements with a free disorder natural to each species.' And after having enumerated others of his celebrated works, such as those at Windsor, Chatsworth, Burleigh,...

...flowers which shook sur* prisingly with the motion of the coaches which passed by. Lord Orford says, " There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave...with a free disorder natural to each species." He lived afterwards at Deptford, where Mr. Evelyn, discovering his wonderful talents, recommended him...

...1ms hung up his day's sport on the wall, and that some of the birds are still in their death flutter. There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave...elements with a free disorder natural to each species. In the great antechamber are several dead fowl over the chimney, finely executed, and, over a closet-door,...

...excelled the most as a carver in wood. It is asserted that there is no instance before him of a man " who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers,...elements with a free disorder natural to each species." l Under his operations birds seemed to live, foliage to shoot, and flowers to expand. From the fell...

...There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose and airy li|(htm,ei of (lowers, and chained together the various productions of the elements with a free disorder natural to each WOOD-ENGRAVING. Theartofeut"ng designs on wood, in such manner as 'nave tho lines in rtlief, those...

...well-merited eulogium passed upon the principal artist by Horace Walpole. " There is no instance," says he, " of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose...elements with a free disorder natural to each species." It is generally believed that Gibbons was the artist of these exquisite carvings. There is, however,...