 | 1851 - 492 pages
...with carvings by Grinhng 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... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Downing - Architecture, Domestic - 1852 - 564 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... | |
 | 1852 - 348 pages
...carvings, by Grinley Gibbons, who was the first, according to 114 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. The lofty columns... | |
 | Frederick William Fairholt - Art - 1854 - 516 pages
...Second. He excelled in carving flowers and foliage ; and Walpole has said with justice, '' There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood...elements with a free disorder natural to each species." WOOD-ENGRAVING. The art of cutling designs on wood, in such manner as to leave the lines in relief,... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - Authors, English - 1854 - 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. The lofty columns... | |
 | Edwin Eddison - 1854 - 358 pages
...dead game Of these carvings Horace "Walpole says " no one, before him, gave to wood the loose airy 312 lightness of flowers, and chained together the various...elements with a free disorder natural to each species;" and Alan Cunningham "the birds seem to live, the foliage to shoot, the flowers to expand beneath your... | |
 | Edwin Eddison - Sherwood Forest - 1854 - 362 pages
...dead game Of these carvings Horace Walpole says " no one, before him, gave to wood the loose airy 312 lightness of flowers, and chained together the various...elements with a free disorder natural to each species;" and Alan Cunningham "the birds seem to live, the foliage to shoot, the flowers to expand beneath your... | |
 | Derbyshire (England) - 1857 - 218 pages
...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 earvings. There is, however,... | |
 | Joel Munsell - Chronology, Historical - 1858 - 544 pages
...shake to the rattling of passing carriages. There is no instance before him, says Waipole, 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. 1732. The first stone laid of the bank of England. 1761.... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Downing - Landscape gardening - 1859 - 646 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 hopo 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. 
