Head-quarters at Osterode / E. Dopler(?) ; J.W. Orr, sc., N.Y. – Vintage Print
![Head-quarters at Osterode / E. Dopler(?) ; J.W. Orr, sc., N.Y., [1853] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/e7/e75719d032fd-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Head-quarters at Osterode / E. Dopler(?) ; J.W. Orr, sc., N.Y., preserved in this antique engraving. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Head-quarters at Osterode / E. Dopler(?) ; J.W. Orr, sc., N.Y.
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Napoleon's wartime quarters at Osterode set this picture apart, a town he used as a base during his winter 1806 to 1807 campaign against Prussia and Russia. The record places the town in the Harz region of Germany, but the headquarters Napoleon occupied were in Osterode in East Prussia, now Ostróda in Poland, so the title may be a cataloguing slip. The wood engraving appeared in *Harper's New Monthly Magazine* in 1853, and its engraver, J.W. Orr, worked in New York, a reminder that American periodicals of the period often drew on European history for their readers.
| Created / published | [1853] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Genre | Periodical illustrations 1850-1860.Wood engravings 1850-1860. |
| Notes | Illus. from: Harper's new monthly magazine, vol. 6, 1853, p. 462. |
| Subjects | Napoleon--I,--Emperor of the French,--1769-1821--Military service. Military headquarters--Germany (West)--Osterode am Harz--1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,267 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-178739 |
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