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Daniel Hopfer, who was an armourer by trade, was one of the first artists in Europe to experiment with the technique for making prints. \r\n\r\nThe contrast with engraving can be seen especially in the bush behind the table, in the tree bark and feathers of the man’s hat. As the design is drawn onto the surface of the plate, curved and irregular lines are far easier to create in an etching than in an engraving. The acid also creates softer edges to the lines. However it removes some control from the artist - this image has ‘foul biting’ in the top centre, where acid has seeped into an area meant to remain white. \r\n\r\nHopfer used steel for his plates, a natural choice for an armourer. Steel is tough and produces a harsh effect. In 1520, Lucas van Leyden experimented with combining etching with engraving. He used copper plates instead of steel because the latter was too hard for engraving. Copper also proved a more satisfactory metal for etching, producing softer results.","physicalDescription":"In a roundel with ornamental border is an image of a soldier singing to his lover with his arm around her shoulder. They sit under an apple? tree and next to the lady is a table with two apples and a lidded jug. The plate is rectangular. 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Plate subsequently owned by David Funck, a Nuremberg bookseller (1642-1705) and distant relative of Daniel Hopfer, who numbered the plates and reprinted these under the title <i>Operae Hopferianae</i>.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Soldier embracing a woman by Daniel Hopfer (ca 1470-1536); etching, ca. 1500-1536.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Bartsch, Adam von, 1757-1821. <u>The illustrated Bartsch</u>. New York : Abaris Books, 1978-, 17, 1981, 146"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Hollstein, F. W. H. <u>German engravings, etchings, and woodcuts, ca. 1400-1700</u>. Amsterdam : M. Hertzberger, 1954-"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Bartsch, Adam von. <u>Peintre-Graveur</u>. 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