...(e.itln-r. These were executed by Gibhons, of whom Walpole observed, 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 Gardens ahound in green-houses, summerhouses, walks, wildernesses, &c. with canals, basons, and...

...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....

...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....

...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...

...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...

...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 the loose...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/ of...

...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 the loose...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 of...

...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 the loose...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...

...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,...

...resided in Bell Savage-court, Ludgate-hill, where he carved a pot of flowers which shook surprisingly with the motion of the coaches that passed by. There...talents, recommended him to Charles II. who gave him a ;lace in the Board of Works, and employed im in the chapel at Windsor. His carved work here is done...