Excerpt from The Carved Cartoon: A Picture of the Past Evelyn's Diary and Walpole's Catalogue of Painters are almost the only sources of information which we have concerning this famous man, and the scanty witness which they afford does not correspond in every particular; but by combining the two, as Allan Cunningham has done for his sketch of Gibbons in Lives of British Painters, Sculptors, and Archi teets, we may be able to arrive at something like the truth, so far as it can be known Here therefore is the rough outline, such as it really stands. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.