Thomas Bowen
He was the son of Emanuel Bowen (1693/4–1767), map engraver to George II and Louis XV. He died in Clerkenwell workhouse early in 1790.
Thomas Bowen
Thomas Bowen · Wellcome Collection, London · Wellcome Collection · Public Domain Mark
- Born
- 1730
- Died
- 1790
- Occupation
- cartographer · copper engraver
- Languages
- English
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He was the son of Emanuel Bowen (1693/4–1767), map engraver to George II and Louis XV. He died in Clerkenwell workhouse early in 1790.
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• Illustration — Bowen's engraving of the Battle of St Lucia in December 1778 He engraved: • the maps and charts of the West Indies, published by the direction of the government from the surveys of Captain James Speer; • maps of the country twenty miles round London and of the road between London and St. David's, about 1750; • a 'New Projection of the Eastern and Western Hemispheres of the Earth,' 1776; and • an 'Accurate Map of the Russian Empire in Europe and Asia,' 1778. • "A New & Accurate Map Of Europe From The Latest Improvements And Regulated By Astronomical Observations", engraved for Mountague's History of England. • An 'English map of Persia and the Garden of Eden,' 1780 He contributed to George Taylor and Andrew Skinner's Survey and Maps of the Roads of North Britain in 1776.
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1730
Thomas Bowen was born on 1 January 1730.
1790
Thomas Bowen died on 1 January 1790.
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