 | Ebenezer Rhodes - 1824 - 422 pages
...every man feels as he contemplates these beautiful productions. " There is no instance," he says, " of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose...elements with a free disorder, natural to each species." This is a high compliment, but those who visit this noble "mansion will not regard it as overstrained.... | |
 | Ebenezer Rhodes - Derbyshire (England) - 1824 - 420 pages
...every man feels as he contemplates these beautiful productions. " There is no instance," he says, " of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose...elements with a free disorder, natural to each species." This is a high compliment, but those who visit this noble mansion will not regard it as overstrained.... | |
 | Sholto Percy, Reuben Percy - London (England) - 1824 - 380 pages
...ornamented with carvings by Gibbons, who was the first, according to Walpole, who succeeded in giving to wood " the loose and airy lightness of flowers,...elements, with a free disorder natural to each species." In the chancel, or semicircular recess at the east end, stands the communion table. What is called... | |
 | Sholto Percy, Reuben Percy - London (England) - 1824 - 392 pages
...assigned to the celebrated Neapolitan artist, Verrio. Grinlin Gibbons, who, as Horace Walpole says, " gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers...together the various productions of the elements with the free disorder natural to each species," was also liberally employed in the exercise of his art... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - Architects - 1830 - 466 pages
...birds are still in the death-flutter. He richly merited the happy compliment of Walpole : " There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood...elements with a free disorder natural to each species." He was, however, much assisted at Chatsworth. The designs are from the pencil of Gibbons, and much/... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - Architects - 1832 - 332 pages
...birds are still in the death-flutter. He richly merited the happy compliment of Walpole : " There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood...elements with a free disorder natural to each species." He was, however, much assisted at Chatsworth. The designs are from the pencil of Gibbons, and much... | |
 | Stephen Glover - Derbyshire (England) - 1830 - 214 pages
...in part or not the work of the eminent Gibbons, we may observe, with Horace Walpole, " that there is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood...elements with a free disorder natural to each species." It is certain that much of this beautiful carved work at Chatsworth was executed by Watson, who studied... | |
 | Thomas Dugdale - 1830 - 334 pages
...carved I ornaments by Gibbons ; of whom Walpole observed, that he was the first j artist, "who gave the wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and...elements, with a free disorder natural to each species." "At Burleigh," observes the same writer, " is a noble profusion of his carving in picture frames, chimney-pieces,... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1831 - 746 pages
...surprisingly with the motion of the coaches that passed by. There is no instance (says Lord Orford) of a man before Gibbons, who gave to wood the loose...elements with a free disorder natural to each species. He lived afterwards at Deptford, where Mr. Evelyn, discovering his wonderful talents, recommended him... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 852 pages
...Gibbon " an original genius, a citizen of nature." He adds, " There is no instance before him of a man who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers,...together the various productions of the elements with the free disorder natural to each species. It is uncertain whether he was born in Holland or in England."... | |
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There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and chained together the various productions of the elements with a free disorder natural to each species. 
