A Plan of Solway Moss, in Cumberland.

Method Copper engraved
Artist Bowen, Thomas
Published c.1779
Dimensions 125 x 103 mm
Notes From the Gentleman's Magazine (1779).

Map of Solway Moss, a lowland peat bog, in Cumbria, near the Scottish border. In November 1542 it was the site of the Battle of Solway Moss, between Scotland and England.

Thomas Bowen (1760-1790) was an engraver and map seller who worked for his father Emmanuel Bowen on the Royal English Atlas and the Atlas Angelicanus, which he completed after his father's death in 1767. He engraved maps for Taylor & Skinner's Survey of the Roads of North Britain and many other publications.

Condition: Overall creasing to sheet.
Framing unmounted
Price £20.00
Stock ID 34540

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