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Book Review
Grinling Gibbons and his Contemporaries (1650–1700): The Golden Age of Woodcarving in the Netherlands and Britain
11/2023 | 1448 | 165
Pages: 1247-1249
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Reviewer:
Bowett, Adam (Bowett, Adam)
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Gibbons, Grinling / and collaborator / followers of / Carvings / Wooden / Architecture / Historical context / Dutch sculpture / British sculpture
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Grinling Gibbons and his Contemporaries (1650–1700): The Golden Age of Woodcarving in the Netherlands and Britain By Ada de Wit. 426 pp. incl. 350 col. + 4 b. & w. ills. (Brepols, Turnhout, 2022), €150. ISBN 978–2–503–58488–1. | :
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4. ‘Queen Sophie’s Bookcase’, incorporating carving of c.1690 from William III’s bedchamber at Huis De Voorst. 1847–49. Rosewood, mahogany, oak and limewood, 346 by 233 by 55 cm. (Photograph Paleis Het Loo, Apeldoorn).