Miraculous ‘Madonna of the Glass’ at Absam. Unrecorded engraving.

Wahre und einzigächte Abbildung der Mutter Gottes zu Absams. [Innsbruck?], s.n., [1797 or shortly thereafter]. [17.7 x 14.3 cm], [1] f. engraving, with image and text printed from two separate plates.
 
 
Unrecorded engraving depicting the miraculous Madonna that appeared on a pane of glass in a house in the Tyrolian town of Absam. 
 
The acheiropoieton (an image not made by human hands) of Absam revealed itself and was discovered on 17 January 1797, when the farm girl Rosina Bucher looked up from her needlework to see that a woman’s face had taken shape on a windowpane. The pane (measuring only about 7 x 5 inches) was soon removed, subjected to a battery of scientific tests, proclaimed a miracle, and within a few months installed in the parish church where became at once the focus of a pilgrimage and the subject of devotional engravings (“in Kupfer gestochene Abbildungen verbreiten sich schnell” [W. Mair, p. 64]).
 
This engraving is unsigned and gives no indication as to where it was printed, but it likely was made in Innsbruck, which lies some 10 kilometers west of Absam.
 
 
This engraving is not located by OCLC or KVK.
 
*A. Kleinhans, Mariengebete und Bilder aus der Marien-Basilika Absam; P. Haider, Herz-Jesu- und Marien-Büchlein: 1796 Herz-Jesu-Geböbnis, 1797 Beginn der Marienwallfahrt in Absam, eine Nachlese zur 200-Jahr-Feier beider Eregnisse; H. Heres, Das private Andachtsbild: Devotionale, Andenken, Amulett; W. Mair, Das Innthal in Tirol und seine Nebenthäler; A. Spamer, Das kleine Andachtsbild vom XIV bis zum XX Jahrhundert.