Overdoor Decoration
Grinling Gibbons (British, 1648–1721)
c. 1675–1677
Medium
limewood
Dimensions
68.6 × 86.4 cm
Classification
Sculpture
Department
European Painting and Sculpture
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Grace Rainey Rogers Fund
Accession Number
1943.663
Tags
male
About this artwork
This wood carving by Grinling Gibbons, England’s most famous master of this medium, comes from the decoration above a door of the Inner Library at Cassiobury Park, near London, one of the artist’s earliest commissions. Decorative elements from this house were sold after it was pulled down in 1922, but many rooms were photographed before their destruction, and the original location of surviving carvings can thus be identified.