 | Rev. George Hall - Chesterfield (England) - 1839 - 566 pages
...part or not the work of the eminent Gibbons, it may be observed, 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." The birds seem to live, the foliage to shoot, the flowers to expand beneath your eye. The most marvellous... | |
 | Thomas Allen - London (England) - 1839 - 828 pages
...earrings, by Grinling Gibbons, of whose unrivalled excellence Walpole thus eloquently speaks : ' There is no instance of a man, before Gibbons, who gave to...the elements, with a free disorder, natural to each species.'f The sums paid to Gibbons are thus stated in extracts from the books at St. Paul's, made... | |
 | Rev. George Hall - Chesterfield (England) - 1839 - 572 pages
...the work of the eminent Gibbons, it may be observed, with Horace Walpole, "that there is no iustancc of a man before Gibbons, who gave to wood the loose...elements with a free disorder natural to each species." The birds seem to live, the foliage to shoot, the flowers to expand beneath your eye. The most marvellous... | |
 | George Godwin, John Britton - Church buildings - 1839 - 380 pages
...by," is no fable. Walpole has truly observed of Gibbons, that there is no instance of a man before him who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers,...various productions of the elements with a free disorder nutural to each. These carvings were originally painted after nature by Sir James Thornhill, they were... | |
 | Saturday magazine - 1840 - 1078 pages
...and over a. closet-door, a pen, not distinguishable from ai . ! feather. There is no instance of .. man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose and...productions of the elements with a free disorder natural Uj aack species." This graceful and elegant species of carving was certainly the line of art in which... | |
 | Leitch Ritchie - Berkshire (England) - 1840 - 356 pages
...biographer of Gibbons, elegantly expresses an opinion of his happy talent. The noble author says, " He 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." " Nearly the whole of the improvements that were designed... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1841 - 566 pages
...Walpole ("Natural History of Painting," &c.) says, that " before him, there was no instance of a man who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers,...elements with a free disorder natural to each species," chiefly used the lime for those extraordinary productions in carving, which are yet preserved in the... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1841 - 840 pages
...nature." He adds, " There is no instance before him of a man who gave to wood the loot and airy lightneii of flowers, and chained together the various productions of the elements with the free disorder natural i<> each species. It is uncertain whether he was born in Holland or in England."... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Downing - Architecture, Domestic - 1844 - 548 pages
...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 hope that the art of wood carving may gradually... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Downing - 1844 - 554 pages
...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 hope that the art of wood carving may gradually... | |
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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. 
