The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times . y and Raving Madness, formerly before the frontof Bedlam, and immortalized by Pope in that scathing coupleton his son, Golley Gibber :— Where oer the gate by his famed fathers handGreat Gibbers brazen, brainless brothers stand. Much other carving about the Palace was done by GabrielGibber, and in fact to him seems to have been entrusted mostof the finer sculpture as distinguished from the decorative em-bellishments. Thus there is, in the old accounts, an item Audit Office Declared Accounts^ Bundle 2482, Roll 297. Carvings by Gabriel Cibber,
The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times . y and Raving Madness, formerly before the frontof Bedlam, and immortalized by Pope in that scathing coupleton his son, Golley Gibber :— Where oer the gate by his famed fathers handGreat Gibbers brazen, brainless brothers stand. Much other carving about the Palace was done by GabrielGibber, and in fact to him seems to have been entrusted mostof the finer sculpture as distinguished from the decorative em-bellishments. Thus there is, in the old accounts, an item Audit Office Declared Accounts^ Bundle 2482, Roll 297. Carvings by Gabriel Cibber, 53 annexed to his name : For carving two coates of armes inPortland stone, sev^^ statues and Figures in metall, and forcarriage of the statues and other charges—^530. Thecoates of armes are evidently the beautiful pieces ofstonework, which surmount the small pediments over two ofthe windows on the first floor in the South Front, and whichexhibit cupids supporting shields with the royal armscrowned. The statues and figures were doubtless some of. Pediment of a Window in the South Front, surmounted by William andMarys Coat-of-Arms. those that formerly served to decorate the top of the Palaceand the gardens, but were removed to Windsor by George Gibber, we also find, carved for Hampton Courta great Vauze of white marble, enricht with divers orna-ments, with a pedestal of Portland stone, also enricht fora sum of ;^i34 ; ^ and there was a companion vase sculp-tured by one Edward Pearce, and described as a greatVauze of white marble, all the figures enriched with leavesand festoons of shells, and Pedestal of Portland stone like- ^ Audit Office Declared Accounts^ Bundle 2482, Roll 298. 54 History of Hampton Court Palace. [1693 wise all members enricht. It was evidently to these thatDefoe refers, when, in his account of Hampton Court in1724, he says : At the entrance gate into the garden standadvanced, on two pedestals of stone, two marble Vases orFlower-Pots, of most ex
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