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Un Pelican donnant à manger à ses perits
Translations
Literature
Sources and parallels
- De la Feuille, Devises Et Emblemes 1697 [web]
, p/no. 17/7 - Rollenhagen, Nucleus emblematum selectissimorum, bk/embl. II/20
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A pelican pouring its blood over its young- water-birds: pelican (+ young animal)
[25F36(PELICAN)(+21)]
- water-birds: pelican (+ feeding and care of young)
[25F36(PELICAN)(+42)]
- water-birds: pelican (+ animal(s) seeking death, self-sacrifice of animal(s))
[25F36(PELICAN)(+5151)]
- Unselfishness (+ emblematical representation of concept)
[57A65(+4)]
- Life (+ emblematical representation of concept)
[58B2(+4)]
- Mortality, Extinction of Life (+ emblematical representation of concept)
[58BB1(+4)]
- proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT)
[86(IN MORTE VITA)]