 | Esther Singleton - Cathedrals - 1909 - 424 pages
...inimitable unison of the lines of the building and the decoration. In the words of Walpole "there is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood...together the various productions of the elements with a fine disorder natural to each species." The naked walls, the arcades, the recesses of St. Paul's might... | |
 | Francis Bond - Choir stalls - 1910 - 168 pages
...unison of the lines of the building and the decoration. In the words of Horace Walpole, " there is no 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 fine disorder natural to each species."... | |
 | George Edwin Rines - 1911 - 658 pages
...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 gave to wood...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... | |
 | Edwin Beresford Chancellor - Artists - 1911 - 402 pages
...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... | |
 | Frederick William Burgess - Furniture - 1915 - 590 pages
...exercising his influence over decorative ornament. It was of his work that Walpole wrote : — " There is no 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."... | |
 | Frederick William Burgess - Furniture - 1915 - 592 pages
...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... | |
 | Ontario. Bureau of Forestry - Forests and forestry - 1896 - 142 pages
...Walpole calls Gibbon " 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." Many fine specimens of Gibbon's carvings still exist in... | |
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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. 
