Description: 'Jedediah Buxton. Aetat 60', showing Buxton [farm labourer of Elmton, 1707-1772, who rose to prominence, although illiterate, because of his prodigious mental skills in arithmetic, being acknowledged by the Royal Society in 1754] seated at table, with unidentified man sitting on the other side with pen and paper, with a written description of his achievements underneath, painted by T Hauck and engraved by R Holme, both of York, c1767