 | Stephen Glover - 1845 - 196 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... | |
 | Child rearing - 1846 - 340 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... | |
 | George Newenham Wright, Charles Henry Timperley - Engraving - 1845 - 276 pages
...constructions. The interior is also enriched by the beautiful carvings of Gibbon, of whom Walpole writes, " he gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers,...elements, with a free disorder natural to each species." The talents of Verrio, Laguerre, Ricard, and Thornhill, were employed in painting ceilings, and staircases,... | |
 | Anne Pratt - Angiosperms - 1847 - 216 pages
...These graceful and light wreaths well deserve the praise bestowed on them by Horace \Valpole. "There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood...elements with a free disorder natural to each species." Notwithstanding the remarks which, in the former part of my letter, I made respecting the odours of... | |
 | Leitch Ritchie - 1848 - 380 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... | |
 | 1856 - 666 pages
...fruit, and game. Of the above carver, Lord Oxford truly, as well as elegantly expressed, " that he gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers,...together the various productions of the elements, with the free disorder natural to eaoh." We now enter the Grand Staircase, distinguished most by an erect... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Downing - Landscape gardening - 1849 - 550 pages
...the walls is quite wonderful. It was of him that Walpole justly said, ' that hn wa* the first artist who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers,...together the various productions of the elements, wilK a free disorder natural to each spccies.' The lime tree is still, however, used by the carver,... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1849 - 462 pages
...their eyes. An inventor is equally a master, whether born in Italy or Lapland. There is no instanee of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and chained togcther the various productions of the elements, with a frec disorder natural to each speeies. Vertue... | |
 | John Evelyn - 1850 - 414 pages
...Grinliwj GMoH. — An original genius, a citizen of nature. 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... | |
 | Henry Green Clarke - Great Exhibition - 1851 - 292 pages
...with carvings, by Grinley 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. Many of the monuments... | |
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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. 
