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Boys will be Boys: Playing Around in a 17th-Century Friendship Book
WALTERS ART MUSEUM - Dr. Lynley Anne Herbert investigates a mysterious image and accompanying rebus found within the pages of a liber amicorum or "friendship book", an album for recording friendships and social connections that amounted to a kind of 17th-century version of Facebook. more