Mapmakers, Baptist

Baptist Mapmakers were among the finest cartographers and engravers in eighteenth-century England. Prominent mapmakers included the Welshman Emanuel Bowen (1693/94–1767), mapmaker to George II; his son Thomas Bowen (1732/33–90); and two of his apprentices, Thomas Kitchin (1719–84) and Thomas Jefferys (c. 1719–71). All four were connected with the Baptist chapel in the Barbican, London. Among their productions are The Large English Atlas (1749–60), The Royal English Atlas (c. 1763), and A General Topography of North America (1768).