"mygoodqueenbess:  Queen Elizabeth I, The Pelican Portrait, 1573-75, Walker Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool. ""This famous likeness of Elizabeth I is known as the 'Pelican Portrait' because of the pendant on the Queen's breast, representing a mother pelican feeding her young with drops of her own blood. The bird is a traditional emblem of Christian self-sacrifice. Here it symbolises the Queen's devotion to the service of her subjects. This picture was painted about 1574, when…"
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