Original antique map by Emanuel Bowen and published by Thomas Kitchin, Holborn Hill, London in1796.
With original colouring.
Inset Isles of Scilly.
Emanuel Bowen 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 producing some of the largest, most detailed and most accurate maps of his era. He is known to have worked with most British cartographic figures of the period including John Owen and Herman Moll.
Emanuel Bowen was appointed as map maker to both George II of England and Louis XV of France. His son Thomas Bowen continued with the business following his death in 1767.
Thomas Kitchin was an English engraver and cartographer who became hydrographer to the King.
He married Sarah Bowen, daughter of Emanuel, in 1739, to whom he had been apprenticed, and then Jane, daughter of Joseph Burroughs, in 1762.
He produced 170 maps for The London Magazine(1747–83).
