Thomas Bowen (died 1790) was a

Welsh Welsh may refer to: Related to Wales * Welsh, referring or related to Wales * Welsh language, a Brittonic Celtic language spoken in Wales * Welsh people People * Welsh (surname) * Sometimes used as a synonym for the ancient Britons (Celtic peop ...

engraver of charts. He was the son of

Emanuel Bowen Emanuel Bowen (1694 – 8 May 1767) was a Welsh map engraver, who achieved the unique distinction of becoming Royal Mapmaker to both to King George II of Great Britain and Louis XV of France. Bowen was highly regarded by his contemporaries for p ...

(1693/4–1767), map engraver to George II and Louis XV. He died in

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workhouse early in 1790.

Works

He engraved: *the maps and charts of the

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, 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

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, 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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* ;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Bowen, Thomas Year of birth missing 1790 deaths Welsh cartographers Welsh engravers 18th-century engravers 18th-century cartographers 18th-century Welsh people