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Britannica 11th

Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition

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Swetchine

Britannica 11th

SWETCHINE, MADAME (1782-1857), Russian mystic, whose maiden name was Soymanof, was born in Moscow, and under the influence of Joseph de Maistre became a member of the Roman Catholic Church in 1815. In the following year she settled in Paris where, until her de ...

Vol. 26, pp. 224-224 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 330.0
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Etching

Britannica 11th

ETCHING (Dutch, etsen, to eat), a form of engraving (q.v.) in which, in contradistinction to line engraving (q.v.), where the furrow is produced by the ploughing of the burin, the copper is eaten away or corroded by acid. To prepare a plate for etching it is f

Vol. 9, pp. 804-806 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 33.75
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