Unrecorded indulgence engraving: Nuestra Señora de la Salud at Barbatona, Spain.

 
 
[Nuestra Señora de la Salud en Barbatona] / [Indulgence]. V.ro R.to de N.a S.a de la Salud que se venera en el Lugar de Barbatona El Illmo S.r D.n Pedro Inocencio Vejerano y el Em.mo S.r Cardenal de Molina y otros S.res Obispos han concendido 280 dias de Yndulgencia átodos los que devotam.te rezaren una Salve delante de esta S.ta Imagen sale áluz acosta de un Devoto año 1818. [Spain], Bernardo Gallarde(?), [c. 1818]. Single sheet [18.2 x 12.8 cm], [1] f. engraving in blue ink. Trimmed on the border, minor spotting and toning. 
 
Unrecorded (OCLC, KVK, REBIUN) early 19th-century engraving—printed in blue ink—providing a ‘true likeness’ of the sacred ‘Our Lady of Good Health’ statue housed at the Santuario de Nuestra Señora de la Salud at Barbatona, Guadalajara, Spain. The Nuestra Señora de la Salud statue is depicted as seen upon her neoclassical altar, standing upon a sculpted cloud and flanked by two acolytes. The text of the engraving celebrates a recent indulgence of 280 days (subtracted from one’s stay in Purgatory) granted by Pedro Inocencio Vejerano, Cardinal de Molina, and “other bishops” to those who recite a ‘Salve Regina’ prayer while contemplating the image.
 
The Barbatona statue, whose miracle working inspired in the 18th and 19th centuries an especially rich culture of ex-voto donation by the grateful public (see E. Castellote Herrero), likely derived from the Madonna della Salute of Venice, which rose to prominence from the 1630s for its ability to protect the faithful from the plague. 
 
The engraving, which is signed in the plate by its maker, a certain Bernardo Gallarde(?), was no doubt made available for purchase to pilgrims visiting the shrine. Such ephemeral items today survive only in very small numbers.
 
 
This engraving is not recorded in OCLC, KVK or REBIUN.
 
*E. Castellote Herrero, Exvotos pictóricos del Santuario de Na Sra de la Salud de Barbatona: una guía para conocerlos y admirarlos; J. Sánchez Ferrer, Santuarios marianos de Castilla La Mancha, pp. 252-4