![]() Kitchin's apprentices included George Rollos. ![]() Kitchin passed his business on to his son, Thomas Bowen Kitchin, who continued to republish many of his maps well after his death. From 1858 or so Kitchin was the engraver to the Duke of York, and from about 1773 acquired the title, 'Royal Hydrographer to King George III.' He is responsible for numerous maps published in the The Star, Gentleman's Magazine, and London Magazine, as well as partnering with, at various times, with Thomas Jefferys, Emmanuel Bowen, Thomas Hinton, Issac Tayor, Andrew Dury, John Rocque, Louis de la Rochette, and Alexander Hogg, among others. Their son, Thomas Bowen Kitchin, also an engraver joined the family business, which thereafter published in Thomas Kitchin and Son. A shallow sea, it has a mean depth of 46 m (151 ft). ![]() He married Bowen daughter, Sarah Bowen, and later inherited much of his preceptor's prosperous business. The Java Sea covers the southern section of the 1,790,000 km 2 (690,000 sq mi) Sunda Shelf. Sumatra on the World Map This map shows where Sumatra is located on the World Map. 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. Covers from Burma south to Java and from the Andaman Islands eastward as far as the Philippines and New Guinea. Thomas Kitchin (Aug– June 23, 1784) was a London based engraver, cartographer, and publisher. These mountains on the major Indonesian Islands are densely forested and volcanic in origin. Visible sheet within the cream mount 25.5cm., 10" height 20cm., 8" Of these islands, the larger islands of Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan (which comprises two-thirds of the island of Borneo), Sulawesi, and Irian Jaya are quite mountainous, with some peaks reaching 12,000 ft. Thomas Kitchen (1718 - 1784) : Map of Turkey in Europe & Hungary 1783
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