Elisabeth von Adlerflycht

Elisabeth von Adlerflycht studied in Frankfurt under Johann Daniel Bager (1754–1815), who painted still lifes and portraits. In 1797 she married Justinian von Adlerflycht, who later became a senator of the Free City of Frankfurt.

During a cruise on the Rhine in 1811, she drew preparatory sketches for a panoramic painting of the Rhine valley from the mouth of the Nahe to the Moselle.^[2] The panorama used continuous parallel projection to illustrate an overhead view of the full Rhine Valley.^[1] Johann Friedrich Cotta von Cottendorf (1764–1832) recognized the novelty of this technique of making pictorial maps and initiated the lithographic printing of this sheet by the Stuttgart geographer and cartographer Heinrich Keller in 1822.^[2] In 1823, Friedrich Wilhelm Delkeskamp of the Frankfurt publishing company Friedrich Wilmans published this classic panorama of the Rhine from Mainz to Cologne.

Elisabeth von Adlerflycht had a painting gallery in Frankfurt, where today a street is named after the von Adlerflycht family.

• Gwinner, Friedrich (1862). Kunst und Künstler in Frankfurt am Main [Art and artists in Frankfurt am Main] (in German). Frankfurt. pp. 440.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Ulrich Thieme; Felix Becker, eds. (1907). "Elisabeth von Adlerflycht". Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart [General dictionary of visual artists from antiquity to the present day] (in German). Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann. p. 86.
• Emmanuel Bénézit, ed. (1976). Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs... [Critical and documentary dictionary of painters, sculptors, designers and engravers ...] (in French).
• "Elisabeth von Adlerflycht". Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon. Die Bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker. [General dictionary of artists: Visual artists of all times and peoples] (in German). Vol. 1. Leipzig: Seemann. 1992. p. 398. ISBN 3-598-22741-8.
• Cornelius Steckner (1993). "Das erste Rheinpanorama. Elisabeth von Adlerflycht (1775 - 1846) und Friedrich Wilhelm Delkeskamp (1794 - 1872)" [The first panorama of the Rhine: Elizabeth of Adlerflycht (1775 - 1846) and Friedrich Wilhelm Delkeskamp (1794 - 1872)]. In W. Schäfke; I. Bodsch (eds.). Der Lauf des Rheins [The course of the Rhine] (in German). Cologne and Bonn. pp. 33–39. ISBN 3-927396-55-9.{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

• The Rhine panorama at the Kölnisches Stadtmuseum