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The prominent printing technique of the seventeenth century is a process known as etching. An etching needle is used to draw into a wax ground applied over a metal plate. The plate is then submerged in a series of acid baths, each biting into the metal surface only where unprotected by the ground. The ground is removed, ink is forced into the etched depressions, the unetched surfaces wiped, and an impression is printed. Also, both …

…with the Sick Around Him, Receiving the Children. This print is suffused with a deep and abiding piety. Christ appears in the central preaching to those with various afflictions. This image is about Christian humility, mercy, and compassion. With etching, he demonstrates his great use of light and shadow, which is typical of Baroque art. This print also demonstrates an interpretation of the Protestant conception of the scripture by showing the positive morality of Christianity.