Jacques Anthony Chovin (1720 - 1776) was a Swiss-French engraver active in the mid to late 18th century. Chovin was born in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is unlcear where he was trained, but Chovin was an engraver of exceptional skill. He is best known for the dramatic engraving the 1744 edition of Mathieu Mérian's Der Basler Totentanz ('The Basel Dance of Death'). He engraved several maps for the swiss geographer Samuel Engel (1702 - 1784). He often signed his works 'I. A. Chovin.'