Zerah Colburn, 1804-1839 – Antique Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Zerah Colburn, 1804-1839 comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Zerah Colburn, 1804-1839
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This engraving comes from an 1833 memoir of Zerah Colburn, the Vermont-born boy whose ability to solve complicated arithmetic in his head drew crowds across America and Europe in the 1810s and 1820s. Colburn, born in 1804, was presented as a rare natural talent, and audiences and scholars often tested him with problems meant to stump him. By 1833 he was a grown man, and the memoir recast his early fame as a story about education, character and the limits of a prodigy's reputation. The print is a useful reminder of how 19th-century readers were drawn to stories of extraordinary young minds.
| Created / published | 1833 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Notes | Engraving from A Memoir of Zerah Colburn ..., 1833. This record contains unverified data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,202 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-152246 |
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