Artwork Title: The Peaceable Kingdom

The Peaceable Kingdom, 1846-1847

Edward Hicks

Hicks created more than 100 versions of this subject, an allegory of spiritual and earthly harmony based on Isaiah II: 6 9: "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them." Hicks closely followed the spiritual description but added imagery symbolic of Quaker belief and Pennsylvania history. At the left, William Penn... (http://arteverywhereus.org/Art-Gallery/id/26)
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