Call Number: Portraits B991 no. 1 - Yale University Library Search Results

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Jedediah Buxton a poor day labourer, born at Elmton in Derbyshire, who without being able to write

Creator:: Spilsbury, John, 1739-1769, printmaker
Published / Created:: [22 November 1781]
Call Number:: Portraits B991 no. 1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Portrait, half-length in a rectangular frame, directed to left, leaning forward and resting right elbow on the frame, with the hand tucked into his thick coat, buttoned at the waist over a striped coarse wool vest, looking down to left, wearing a soft cap with a feather; after Killingbeck; state with biographical note."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title from caption below image., Imprint from more perfect impression from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1851,0308.120., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint., and Mounted on sheet: 41.9 x 30.7 cm.
Publisher:: Publish'd as the Act directs Nov. the 22nd 1781 by B. Killingbeck, No. 14, Dover Street, Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):: Laborers and Curiosities & wonders
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Jedediah Buxton a poor day labourer, born at Elmton in Derbyshire, who without being able to write or cast accounts in the ordinary method, perfom'd the longest calculations and solv'd the most difficult problems in arithmetic, by the strength of his memory; neither noise, nor conversation cou'd interrupt him; he would either go on with his calculations all the time or leave off in the midst and resume them again even though it shou'd be years afterwards / [graphic]