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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

Edmund Windwood becomes Gibbons' third apprentice on 25 July 1677 as ledgered in the Drapers' Bindings Book © 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.