Antique Map of Devonshire by Emanuel Bowen



From the Large English Atlas. Very detailed, substantial areas of text relating to the commerce and agriculture of the county. Condition: Paper good, some age discolouration, some early hand colouring, bold imprint, folding copy.
Title: An antique map of Devonshire circa 1767.
Medium: Hand coloured engraving.		Image Size: 530 x 680mm, 21 x 26.75 " approx.
Order No. 2142	Price: £495.00	Paper Size: 580 x 730mm, 23 x 28.75 " approx.
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Biography:

Emanuel Bowen (fl. 1714 - 67)

An 18th century map and print seller, who worked in London from about 1714, producing some of the best and attractive maps of the century. A recurring feature of Bowen's work, evident even on the early road maps, was his habit of filling every corner and space of the map with jottings and footnotes, both historical and topographical.

One of his earliest engraved works Britannia Depicta, published in 1720 contained over two hundred road maps together with a miniature county map of each of the counties of England and Wales. It was an unusual feature of the atlas that the maps were engraved on both sides of each page, and this resulted in a handier sized book.

He also issued with John Owen a book of road maps based, as was usual at the time, on Ogilby but again incorporating his own style of historical and heraldic detail.

Inspite of his royal appointments and apparent prosperity he died in poverty and his son, who carried on the business was no more fortunate and died in a Clerkenwell workhouse in 1790.

Old eighteenth century map of Devonshire by Emanuel Bowen.

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