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C1744
A View of a large street in one of ye Trading Cities of China shewing how their signs are placed & shops disposed.
C18th engraving of one of the foreign concessions in one of China’s ports. From Harris’s Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca, or a Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels.
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Full Title:
A View of a large street in one of ye Trading Cities of China shewing how their signs are placed & shops disposed.
Date:
C1744
Artist:
Unknown
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Copper engraving.
Image Size:
202mm
x 142mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1744
Description:
C18th engraving of one of the foreign concessions in one of China’s ports.
From Harris’s Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca, or a Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels.
Biography:
Emanuel 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.
