Un Aigle employé à tenir un foudre dans l’un de ses serres & dans l’autre une branche d’olive
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Sources and parallels
- De la Feuille, Devises Et Emblemes 1697 [web], p/no. 16/14
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An eagle with a thunderbolt in one claw and an olive branch in the other- predatory birds: eagle (+ animal(s) holding something) [25F33(EAGLE)(+5245)]
- predatory birds: eagle (+ animal(s) moving in the air) [25F33(EAGLE)(+526)]
- trees: olive-tree (+ branch, stick) [25G3(OLIVE-TREE)(+22)]
- lightning, flash of lightning, thunderbolt [26E2]
- ruler, sovereign [44B1:5(+4)]
- symbols, allegories of war; 'Guerra' (Ripa) [45A10]
- symbols, allegories of peace, 'Pax'; 'Pace' (Ripa) [45A20]
- proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT) [86(UNICUIQUE PROPRE)]