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19TH CENTURY, IN THE MANNER OF THOMAS WEEKS Each on a black marble base 4 ? in. (11 cm.) high; 7 in. (18 cm.) wide; 3 ? in. (9 cm.) deep
Acquired from Jeremy Ltd., London.
These whippets are resonant of the early nineteenth-century work of Thomas Weeks (d. 1834) who established a 'Royal Mechanical Museum' or emporium in Tichbourne Street in about 1797. The attractions included various animated animals and insects, ingenious clocks, musical instruments, elaborate temples, toys and other such peculiarities that appealed to the London public in the late 18th and early 19th Century (C. Gilbert, 'Some Weeks cabinets reconsidered', The Connoisseur, May 1971, p. 15). A similar pair of recumbant greyhounds was sold from the Collection of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth; Christie's, New York, 21 March 2015, lot 1225 ($7,500, including premium).