Cleveland Museum of Art

Overdoor Decoration

Grinling Gibbons

Date

c. 1675–1677

Medium

limewood

Culture

England, 17th century

Department

European Painting and Sculpture

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

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.

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