...Walpole) before Gibbons had "ever given to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, or linked together the various productions of the elements with a free disorder natural to each species." His cJief d' œuvre of skill was an imitation point-lace cravat, which he carved at Chatsworth for...

...The praise which Walpole bestows he richly merited : — ' There is no instance of a man before him who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers,...with a free disorder natural to each species.' He imitated Nature with the faithfulness of a loving eye and the skill of a bold and ready hand. Whatever...

...as famous visitors. Grinling Gibbons the Dutchman, who, according to Walpole, was the first to give to wood " the loose and airy lightness of flowers,...elements with a free disorder natural to each species," lived at the upper end of the street, on the right-hand side. On the site of the theatre lived Wycherley,...

...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,...

...Horace Walpole's eulogy. He says: " There is no instance of a man before, who gave to wood the light airy lightness of flowers, and chained together the...elements with a free disorder natural to each species." The New Quadrangle, built from designs of TG Jackson, is very attractive. These buildings were completed...

...subjects of this kind with so much delicacy that the effect is astonishing." Horace Waipole writes: "There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who...elements with a free disorder natural to each species." Specimens of his carving may be seen in many of the London churches, at Windsor, Kensington and in...

...to have died. The next really great sculptor we come to is Grinling Gibbon,^ who, as Walpole says, " gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers,...elements, with a free disorder natural to each species." At one time there wal, much divergence of opinion concerning his nationality and parentage, Murray...

...instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers and changed together the various productions of the elements with a free disorder natural to each species." DECORATED. The decorated furniture which ranges in date from 1714 to 1725 began during the reign of...