Gibbons’ Third Apprentice (Drapers’ Company Bindings Book 1655-89)
Creator(s): Worshipful Company of Drapers
Date: Entry for 25 July 1677 (contained in book dated 1655-89)
Accession Number: DR/FB4
Materials: Work on paper (book)
Location: Drapers’ Hall, Throgmorton Avenue, London EC2N 2DQ
Credit Line (copyright notice for material) : © The Drapers' Company
NOTES ON THE ARTWORK
Around the time of Gibbons’ commencement on the rebuilding project at Windsor Castle, he took a third apprentice, Edmund Windwood, son of Edmund Windwood of Thetford?, Norfolk, on 25 July 1677.
Further reading: David Esterly, ‘Grinling Gibbons and the Art of Carving’, V&A Publications, 1998, pgs 174-6.
Gibbons' third apprentice, Edmund Windwood, is 'bound' on 25 July 1677 © The Drapers' Company
