In this moving print, a married couple shares a comforting embrace. The wife cradles one of her husband’s hook arms, and he in turn clutches her hip with his other hook. Leaning in toward each other, their sad expressions convey both mutual love and sorrow. Heinrich Hoerle used complexity and density of line in both the subjects’ faces and the woman’s hands to draw the viewer’s attention to these two focal points of the image.

— Exhibition label, Belligerent Encounters: Graphic Chronicles of War and Revolution, 1500–1945, July 31–October 23, 2011, Galleries 124–127.