We’re installing the Centuries in the Making exhibition at Bonhams, London, and our director & curator Hannah Phillip has had a chance to view this incredible carved panel up close, giving her an insight into Grinling Gibbons’ perspective and vision as he designed and carved it: 
“Normally it's high up and that's how Gibbons made it to be seen. So these angles are a real revelation and show how he constructed it, carving it with a view to what would be seen from below. …
He also foreshortened certain elements, again to take account of where the viewer would see it from and to get the perspective right.”
We’ll be sharing more exhibition highlights and discoveries with you as we get closer to Grinling Gibbons’ tercentenary on 3 August.
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