ANONYMOUS EMANUEL BOWEN
NUOVA ESATTA CARTA DELL' IMPERIO DEL GRAN MOGOL COLL' INDIA DI QUA E DI LA DAL GANGE, E PAESI VICINI .
NEW EXACT MAP OF THE EMPIRE OF THE GREAT MUGHAL WITH INDIA ON THIS AND THERE FROM THE GANGES, AND NEARBY COUNTRIESFolded Map
Year: 1750
Size: 47.5 x 38.8 cm (18.7 x 15.2 inches)
This decorative map of India, Central Asia, Siam, the Straits of Malacca, and parts of Borneo, Sumatra, and China. Includes an elaborate cartouche with an elephant. Nice detail throughout, along with notes in the Indian Ocean and near the Maldives.
Emanuel Bowen (c. 1693/94–1767) was an accomplished engraver who became a leading mid-century map and atlas-maker, engraving many maps for contemporary magazines and books. He achieved the unique distinction of becoming Royal Mapmaker to King George II of Great Britain and Louis XV of France.
The earliest work associated with Bowen, the Britannia Depicta (1720), is essentially a strip road atlas based on Ogilby’s maps, with a set of small county maps. Bowen’s co-publisher was Thomas Bowles, and the antiquary who compiled and edited the text was John Owen. The maps are, therefore, sometimes known as ‘Owen-Bowens’.
Provenance : Collection of a Gentleman
Good Condition
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