Emanuel Bowen

Emanuel Bowen (1693/94-1767) was an engraver and cartographer from Carmarthenshire, South Wales. During his apprenticeship he engraved maps for George Willdey’s Atlas of the World (1717).  Later maps that issued from his premises in Clerkenwell included a map of South Wales in 1729 (it had 500 subscribers). In 1732 and 1735 he apprenticed Thomas Kitchin and Thomas Jefferys, both of whom became prominent cartographers. Bowen, for some time known as the mapmaker to the King, contributed to periodicals consistently between 1736 and 1763. Other works include Complete Atlas (1752) The Maps and Charts to the Modern Part of the Universal History (1766, with Thomas Kitchin), and Large English Atlas (1749-1760) and Royal English Atlas (c. 1763). He was active in the Barbican Baptist chapel during his entire time in London. His son, Thomas Bowen (1732/33-90), continued his map-making business in London.