Creator

Thomas Bowen

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Identifier

Map11-sm

Creation Date

1784

Description

1784/85

33 x 44 cm., hand colored

This map covers the thirteen United States, Louisiana, and parts of Canada, Florida, and Mexico. It shows the boundaries, towns and Cities, forts, Indian villages and tribal territory, mines, grasslands and relief, as well as a few historical notes. Thomas Bowen’s distinguished father was the official engraver for King George II. He engraved for his father’s atlas, British American Plantations and Captain Cook’s Royal English Atlas, 1767; along with several other atlases.

Keywords

Thomas Bowen, Eighteenth Century maps, ancient maps, Carlton D. Weaver Map Collection, Correct map of the United States

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