Zerah Colburn, a mental calculator, as a child. Stipple engraving by H. Meyer, 1813, after T.H. Hull.
- Hull, Thomas H., -1800.
- Date:
- 18 January 1813
- Reference:
- 230i
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The sitter is described in Steven B. Smith, The great mental calculators', New York, 1983, ch. 22
Publication/Creation
London : Published for the Proprietor, 18 January 1813.
Physical description
1 print : stipple engraving
Lettering
Zerah Colburn, a child just eight years of age, endowed by nature with the remarkable faculty of solving a great variety of arithmetical questions by the mere operation of his mind. From a drawing by T. Hull esqr. ; Engraved by Henry Meyer, Grt. Russell Street, Bloomsbury.
Notes
Accompanied by one sheet of printed lettering as stipulated on the bottom of the print
Reference
Wellcome Collection 230i
Reproduction note
The original is "in the possession of F. Baily"
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