Maria Magdalena Langhans, the wife of the pastor of the Swiss village of Hindelbank, died in childbirth on Easter eve in 1751; she was 28 years old. Her grieving husband commissioned a funerary monument from the sculptor Johann August Nahl that showed the mother and her stillborn child at the Resurrection, breaking through the top of the tomb to present themselves to God. Nahl’s sandstone monument soon became a pilgrimage place for those traveling through Switzerland. Although made later in the eighteenth century, Christian von Mechel’s print undoubtedly contributed to the international fame of the tomb.