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Meyer Kestnbaum
Dept of Sociology
University of Maryland
Perhaps the most accessible (for you) biographical information on
Emanuel (and his son Thomas) Bowen can be found on pp.423-424 of the
'Biographical notes' section in:-
The printed maps in the atlases of Great Britain and Ireland: a
bibliography, 1579-1870 / Thomas Chubb. - London; Edinburgh: The
Homeland Association, 1927 (reprinted Folkestone: Dawson, 1977)
It must never be assumed that maps were only ever compiled and
engraved for inclusion in atlases (or, as James Akerman of The
Newberry Library and Peter van der Krogt of Utrecht University would
put, 'atlases'): your map of Europe, for example, appears between
pp.456 & [457] in:-
Navigantium atque Itinerantium Biblioteca. Or, a complete collection
of voyages and travels [...] Originally published [...] By John Harris
[...] now carefully revised [...], vol.II, Book II (London: various
publishers, 1748)
A personal guess at the symbolism of the cartouche would be that the
reclining beared male figure represents the commercial importance of
inland waterways and the ship represents overseas trade: contemporary
context will often help in unravelling such things.
Barbara McCorkle (whose in-depth study of 18th-century geographies and
their cartographic constituents) is eagerly awaited by many of us
cartobibliographic cranks, may well supply you with details on
possible further use of the same copper-plate map.
Yours sincerely
Francis Herbert (Curator of Maps, RGS, London)
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