Their son, Thomas Bowen Kitchin, also an engraver joined the family business, which thereafter published in Thomas Kitchin and Son.
He married Bowen daughter, Sarah Bowen, and later inherited much of his preceptor's prosperous business. At 14, Kitchin apprenticed under Emanuel Bowen, under whom he mastered the art of engraving. He was born in London to a hat-dyer of the same name. Thomas Kitchin (Aug– June 23, 1784) was a London based engraver, cartographer, and publisher. Visible sheet within the cream mount 25.5cm., 10" height 20cm., 8" Learn More.Thomas Kitchen (1718 - 1784) : Map of Turkey in Europe & Hungary 1783 He was succeeded as Ingénieur Hydrographe by his student, also a prolific and influential cartographer, Rigobert Bonne.
Bellin, despite his extraordinary success, may not have enjoyed his work, which is described as "long, unpleasant, and hard." In addition to numerous maps and charts published during his lifetime, many of Bellin's maps were updated (or not) and published posthumously.
Unlike many of his contemporaries, Bellin was always careful to cite his references and his scholarly corpus consists of over 1400 articles on geography prepared for Diderot's Encyclopedie. A true child of the Enlightenment Era, Bellin's work focuses on function and accuracy tending in the process to be less decorative than the earlier 17th and 18th century cartographic work. His long career as Hydrographer and Ingénieur Hydrographe at the French Dépôt des cartes et plans de la Marine resulted in hundreds of high quality nautical charts of practically everywhere in the world. With a career spanning some 50 years, Bellin is best understood as geographe de cabinet and transitional mapmaker spanning the gap between 18th and early-19th century cartographic styles. Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703 - March 21, 1772) was one of the most important cartographers of the 18th century. Minnesota - North Dakota - South Dakota.Massachusetts - Connecticut - Rhode Island.
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