Two highly unusual maps of the Rhine for Sale. 1. Elisabeth v. Adlerflycht The original Rhine panorama - as "bird's eye view“ The inspiration for the Rhine leporello was based on the work of a talented female artist of the nineteenth century. As Sattler (1993) relates: basing her work on sketches she had made the talented Frankfurt artist Elisabeth von Adlerflycht produced the earliest known panorama of the landscape along the river Rhin e . In 1811 the hobby painter Elisabeth von Adlerflycht (1775-1846) made a trip along the Rhine and made preparatory drawings during the journey which she later turned into a fascinating , colour drawing of the river landscape between Bingen and Coblenz (or Koblenz). The particular style she chose, known as a bird's eye view, was not new but had never been used for this river before and the angle of approximately 45° allowed a continuous image and representation of the relief of this part of the Rhin e valley (freely translated from Sat