1840s Boxed German Album Amicorum with Many Lovelies portrait of boy and dog and what I’d guess was

and what I’d guess was once white cloth is now stained pretty much all over

and  especially this wonderful black dog at her side with tongue hanging out

as is our Athena in profile

and actually quite holy feeling

Looks a bit like an all seeing eye too

1840s Boxed German Album Amicorum with Many Lovelies portrait of boy and dog and what I’d guess wasI 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,