Overdoor Decoration
Creator(s): Grinling Gibbons 1648-1721
Date: c. 1675-1677
Accession Number: Grace Rainey Rogers Fund 1943.663
Dimensions: Overall: 68.6 x 86.4 cm (27 x 34 in.)
Materials: Limewood (Lindenwood)
Location: Cleveland Museum of Art (in storage), 11150 East Boulevard Cleveland, Ohio 44106
Credit Line (copyright notice for material) : By permission of Cleveland Museum of Art / Grace Rainey Rogers Fund
Online Catalogue Entry : https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1943.663#
NOTES ON THE 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.
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Grace Rainey Rogers Fund 1943.663
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Grace Rainey Rogers Fund 1943.663
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Grace Rainey Rogers Fund 1943.663
