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The lost carving : a journey to the heart of making / David Esterly.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection NK9798.E88 A35 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Esterly, David.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Esterly, David.
- Hampton Court (Richmond upon Thames, London, England)--Fire, 1986.
- Hampton Court (Richmond upon Thames, London, England).
- Wood-carving.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 279 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Viking, 2012.
- Summary:
- Recounts the story of the author's career as a woodcarver and traces the challenging and philosophically passionate year spent replacing a Grinling Gibbons masterpiece that was destroyed in a fire at Henry VIII's Hampton Court Palace.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Miller fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780670023806 ;
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