Description
as is our Athena in profile
Looks a bit like an all seeing eye too
and especially this wonderful black dog at her side with tongue hanging out
Michael at right
1840s Boxed German Album Amicorum with Many Lovelies portrait of boy and dog as is our Athena inI only recently learned about album amicorum (Latin for "book of friends") or liber amicorum, a European manuscript tradition, beginning in the 16ht century, where individualsoften students, scholars, or aristocratscollected signatures, poems, illustrations, and in this case embroideries, from friends, colleagues, and notable figures. A sort of precursor to the Victorian autograph album, but these were comprised of loose pieces, collected over time,
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