Thomas Bowen (engraver)

Thomas Bowen (died 1790) was an English 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]

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

References

•  "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.