Map of the Southern Part of the Grand Duchy of Warsaw. Paris: Dépôt Général de la Guerre, 1808.
Map of the Southern Part of the Grand Duchy of Warsaw. Paris: Dépôt Général de la Guerre, 1808.
Copperplate engraving, paper, 455 × 615 mm, printed on a sheet measuring 578 × 742 mm. Blank reverse. Map mounted on a passe-partout; the paper is slightly creased along the atlas fold line, with minor soiling and creases in the margins.
A meticulously crafted map depicting the southern part of the Duchy of Warsaw, published by the French military cartographic office at the height of Napoleon’s power in Central Europe. Published in Paris in 1808, shortly after the creation of the Duchy of Warsaw under the Treaty of Tilsit (1807), it reflects the urgent need for strategic and administrative cartographic documentation of the newly created state, which was a French vassal state.
The map covers a vast area of present-day central and western Poland as well as neighboring lands, extending to Silesia in the west and East Prussia in the north. Major cities, including Wrocław, Legnica, and Głogów, are clearly marked, while roads, rivers, and administrative boundaries are depicted with the precision characteristic of military cartography. The table on the map, titled *Tableau de la Division de la Prusse Méridionale en Départements et Cercles*, shows the administrative division of Southern Prussia into departments and counties within the Poznań, Warsaw, and Kalisz departments, illustrating the complex process of political and administrative reorganization of the region under Napoleonic rule.
An important and rare document on the Napoleonic reorganization of Polish territories, illustrating the political and administrative situation of the region at a pivotal moment in the formation of modern Poland.
Map of the Southern Part of the Grand Duchy of Warsaw. Paris: Dépôt Général de la Guerre, 1808.
Copperplate engraving, paper, 455 × 615 mm, printed on a sheet measuring 578 × 742 mm. Blank reverse. Map mounted on a passe-partout; the paper is slightly creased along the atlas fold line, with minor soiling and creases in the margins.
A meticulously crafted map depicting the southern part of the Duchy of Warsaw, published by the French military cartographic office at the height of Napoleon’s power in Central Europe. Published in Paris in 1808, shortly after the creation of the Duchy of Warsaw under the Treaty of Tilsit (1807), it reflects the urgent need for strategic and administrative cartographic documentation of the newly created state, which was a French vassal state.
The map covers a vast area of present-day central and western Poland as well as neighboring lands, extending to Silesia in the west and East Prussia in the north. Major cities, including Wrocław, Legnica, and Głogów, are clearly marked, while roads, rivers, and administrative boundaries are depicted with the precision characteristic of military cartography. The table on the map, titled *Tableau de la Division de la Prusse Méridionale en Départements et Cercles*, shows the administrative division of Southern Prussia into departments and counties within the Poznań, Warsaw, and Kalisz departments, illustrating the complex process of political and administrative reorganization of the region under Napoleonic rule.
An important and rare document on the Napoleonic reorganization of Polish territories, illustrating the political and administrative situation of the region at a pivotal moment in the formation of modern Poland.
