Thomas Bowen (engraver)

Thomas Bowen (died 1790) was a Welsh engraver of charts. He was the son of Emanuel Bowen (1693/4–1767),[1] 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, 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.[2]
• 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

1. http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/3/101003035/ Retrieved 16 April 2011
2. http://www.garwood-voigt.com/catalogues/eurocont.htm, Retrieved 06 Oct 14

• "Bowen, Thomas" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Bowen, Thomas". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.