Copper engraving, 36.5 x 45 cms, recent hand-colour, closed centrefold split, blank verso. Insets of Toulon and Brest.
Emanuel Bowen (fl. 1714-67) was an important English cartographer, engraver to both George II and Louis XV. He produced some of the most decorative eighteenth century English maps. In spite of his royal appointments he died in poverty.
