Sculpting reality
Jun 09, 2021
2 minutes
ON May 11, 1769, Horace Walpole wrote to his friend George Montagu to report on the reception of a glittering array of English, French, Spanish and Portuguese guests at Strawberry Hill: ‘At the gates of the castle I received them dressed in the cravat of Gibbons’s carving, and a pair of gloves embroidered up to the elbows that had belonged to James I. The French servants stared and firmly believed
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