 | William Hone - 1832 - 874 pages
...original ecnius, a citizen of nature." He adds, " There is no instance before him of a man who gare to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and...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."... | |
 | Great Britain - 1834 - 614 pages
...artist capable of giving to wood, or stone, " the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and chaining together the various productions of the elements, with a free disorder natural 10 each species." Such, according to Walpole^ was the effect produced by the chisel of Gibbon* ; in... | |
 | William Gilpin - Forests and forestry - 1834 - 432 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... | |
 | Robert Folkestone Williams - 1835 - 134 pages
...so much delicacy, that the effect is perfectly astonishing. Walpole says, — " There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose...elements, with a free disorder, natural to each species." * So delicate was his workmanship, states the same writer, that Gibbons carved a pot of flowers, which... | |
 | Thomas Allom - 1836 - 162 pages
...Of plumes or flow'rs, when tremulous they wave." or, as Walpole, with equal poetry, has observed, " who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers,...elements with a free disorder natural to each species." In various apartments are fine paintings« among which the ceilings and walls, decorated by Verrio... | |
 | Thomas Allen - London (England) - 1839 - 856 pages
...Grinling Gibbons, of whose unrivalled excellence Walpole thus eloquently speaks : ' There is no instance of a man, before Gibbons, who gave to wood the loose...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... | |
 | 1837 - 538 pages
...the execution is quite wonderful. It was said by Walpole, of Gibbons, " that he was the first artist who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers,...the elements with a free disorder natural to each other." There are six European species, besides several American, particularly the Tilia Americana,... | |
 | Book - 1837 - 232 pages
...the execution is quite wonderful. It was said by Walpole, of Gibbons, " that he was the first artist who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers,...the elements with a free disorder natural to each other." There are six European species, besides several American, particularly the Tilia Americana,... | |
 | Periodicals - 1837 - 260 pages
...the execution is quite wonderful. It was said by Walpole, of Gibbons, " that he was the first artist who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers,...the elements with a free disorder natural to each other." There are six European species, besides several American, particularly the Tilia Americana,... | |
 | George Godwin - Church buildings - 1839 - 774 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,...the elements with a free disorder natural to each. These carvings were originally painted after nature by Sir James Thornhill, they were afterwards covered... | |
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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. 
