Thomas Bowen (engraver)

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Name Thomas Bowen Role Emanuel Bowen's son		Died 1790 Parents Emanuel Bowen

Thomas Bowen (died 1790) was an English engraver of charts. 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.

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.

He contributed to George Taylor and Andrew Skinner's Survey and Maps of the Roads of North Britain in 1776.

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