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C1744
Macao / A View of the Town and Castle of Macao.
Artist:
Fabulous c.18th engraving of Commodore George Anson’s ship H.M. Centurion firing its guns in Macau harbour with the captured Manilla galleon, the Covadonga. From Harris’s Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca, or a Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels.
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S/N: NAIB-1354-ASI-CHI–228558
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Full Title:
Macao / A View of the Town and Castle of Macao.
Date:
C1744
Artist:
Condition:
In good condition
Technique:
Hand coloured copper engraving.
Image Size:
305mm
x 200mm
Paper Size:
400mm
x 255mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1744
Description:
Fabulous c.18th engraving of Commodore George Anson’s ship H.M. Centurion firing its guns in Macau harbour with the captured Manilla galleon, the Covadonga.
From Harris’s Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca, or a Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels.
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.
