Part of a carving from an overmantel (five parts)
Rogers Fund, 1916
Catalogue
- Year
- 1670
- Medium
- Carved and gilded oak
- Dimensions
- 197 x 106 1/4 in. (500.4 x 269.9 cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist
- Grinling Gibbons
Artist
Sculpture
Grinling Gibbons was an Anglo-Dutch sculptor and wood carver known for his work in England, including Windsor Castle, the Royal Hospital Chelsea and Hampton Court Palace, St Paul's Cathedral and other London churches, Petworth House and other country houses, Trinity College, Oxford and Trinity College, Cambridge. Gibbons was born to English parents in Holland, where he was educated.
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Record
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- Grinling Gibbons
- Year
- 1670
- Medium
- Carved and gilded oak
- Dimensions
- 197 x 106 1/4 in. (500.4 x 269.9 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1670-005339
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified