Jedediah Buxton, a mental calculator. Mezzotint by J. Spilsbury, 1781, after B. Killingbeck.

  • Killingbeck, Benjamin.
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22 November 1781
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205i
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Jedediah Buxton, a mental calculator. Mezzotint by J. Spilsbury, 1781, after B. Killingbeck. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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On the sitter see Dictionary of National Biography

Information on the sitter is available in Steven B. Smith, 'The Great Mental Calculators', New York, 1983, ch. 20

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[London] (14 Dover Street, Piccadilly) : Published as the Act directs by B. Killingbeck, 22 November 1781.

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1 print : mezzotint ; platemark 38 x 27.5 cm

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Jedediah Buxton, a poor day labourer: born at Elmton in Derbyshire ... The lettering describes how the sitter's remarkable memory enabled him to perform the most complicated calculations

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Wellcome Collection 205i

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