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C1748
A New and Accurate chart of the West Indies with the Adjacent Coasts of North and South America..
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Detailed map of south eastern United States, central and southern America and the Caribbean Islands. A decorative title cartouche is at top right and are the “winds”. Noted in is King Charles II’s charter of 1665 to the Earl of Clarendon, … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
A New and Accurate chart of the West Indies with the Adjacent Coasts of North and South America..
Date:
C1748
Mapmaker:
Condition:
In good condition, with centre fold as issued.
Technique:
Hand coloured copper engraving.
Image Size:
450mm
x 370mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1748
Description:
Detailed map of south eastern United States, central and southern America and the Caribbean Islands. A decorative title cartouche is at top right and are the “winds”.
Noted in is King Charles II’s charter of 1665 to the Earl of Clarendon, Duke of Albermarle, etc., which established the colony of Carolina, extending south to St. Augustine and incorporating the recently named (and just colonised) Georgia. A second note identifies Columbus’ landfall on St. Salvador or Cat Island in 1492. A third note addresses the taking of the Bahamas by the Spanish and French in 1703 and subsequent retaking of the island by the Captain Rogers for the British in 1717.
A decorative title cartouche is at top right. Bowen has also shown the direction of the prevailing “winds”.
From Harris’s, Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca or, a Complete Collection of Voyages and Travel.
Emmanuel Bowen (1693 - 1767)
Bowen was an engraver, cartographer, publisher and print seller. Born in Wales the son of Owen Bowen, gentleman of Talley, Carmarthen. Apprenticed (Merchant Taylor) to Charles Price 1709. He married Elizabeth Boreman 1715 at St. Andew by the Wardrobe in 1716. He was warden of the Masonic Lodge IX in 1723 and master of a Masonic lodge in Carmarthen in 1726. He appeared on Samuel Sympson's list of the leading London engravers compiled in about 1726. He produced numerous maps and atlases during his career.
