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By Emanuel Bowen c 1693.1694 – 1767. Emanuel Bowen
was one of the leading 18th Century map and print sellers and engravers in London who worked ‘Opposite to the Tunn Inn in Fleet Street’, among other addresses. He was appointed engraver of maps to George II of England and also possibly Louis XV of France.His apprentices included Thomas Kitchen, who became his son-in-law and Thomas Jefferys.
As well as many county atlases of England, which were published as The Royal English Atlas, he published
"A New and Accurate Map of America" in 1744 from where this map of Chesapeake originated.
Sadly, after an industrious life, he died in poverty, nearly blind in 1767. His son carried on the business but seems to have inherited his father’s misfortune towards the end of he life, and also died in poverty in a workhouse (poorhouse) in Clerkenwell (a district of London) in 1790.
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