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Grinling Gibbons (1648 - 1721)

Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/10596?docPos=10 Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grinling_Gibbons Artist - sculptor
Relevant locations: Birth place in Rotterdam, South Holland
Residence at York, Yorkshire
Linked print sources: as Artist - sculptor - Ducatus Leodiensis; or the topography of the town and parish of Leedes and parts adjacent ...
as Subject of/in a document - Grinling Gibbons. His Work as Carver and Statuary, 1648-1721.
References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

The History of ----- found at or near Yorke; it is good Workmanship, but not enough remaining to express the Story; sent by Mr. Gyles the famous Glass-Painter. An antique Head in Marble that belonged to the Virgin Mary's Shrine at York Minster; sent me by Mr. Sam. Carpenter the Statuary. John the Baptist's Head in a Platter, with this Inscription in old Letters, Inter nat: Mulier nō: sur: (surrexit) maj: Johē: Bapt: It is in Metal, twenty Inches in Circumference. The Heads of Otho and Vitellius in Plaister, from Aldburgh. Don. D. Eliz. Aldburgh. The first twelve Roman Emperors, done in Plaister by R. Th. Cardinal Wolsey's Head very well performed in Wood, found in the Ruins of the Archbishop's House at Cawood. Don. D. Jo. Etty Architect. The Head of King Charles I. seems to be black Marble, but is of the Lancashire Canal-Coal. The Present of the Lady Thornton. Lewis le Grand in Plaister, inscribed, Lud XIIII D G Fr: et Nav: Rex. Sir Paul Rycaut, the Learned Consul, in Wax, very curiously done at Hamburgh, K. Solomon's Judgment upon the Two Harlots, wherein are about a Dozen Figures in less than three Inches Diameter. Another half a Yard in Circumference, both of Metal and very well performed. The History of Elijah under the Juniper-Tree, supported by an Angel, 1 Kings 19. It is well performed in Wood by the celebrated Mr. Grindlin Gibbon, when Resident at Yorke, six Inches in Length, and four in Breadth. The same History wrought from it in Silk-work, by Mrs. Catharine Thoresby (my Mother-in-Law). A Mould for the History of our First Parents in Paradice, well designed, bought of the Executors of the said ingenious Mr. Gyles, together with an Excellent Statue of our Blessed Saviour, as bound to a Pillar in order to be scourged, so admirably express'd, that I confess, I cannot look upon it without Concern, and yet dread not the Scandal of Superstition. These are each a Foot high.