Thomas Bowen (died 1790) was a
Welsh
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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
Clerkenwell workhouse early in 1790.
Works
He engraved:
*the maps and charts of the
West Indies
The West Indies is a subregion of North America, surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea that includes 13 independent island countries and 18 dependencies and other territories in three major archipelagos: the Great ...
, 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.
References
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Year of birth missing
1790 deaths
Welsh cartographers
Welsh engravers
18th-century engravers
18th-century cartographers
18th-century Welsh people