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Edward Hicks. The Peaceable Kingdom.
1846. Oil on canvas, 64 x 73 cm. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, USA.
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Probably no other folk or mainstream American artist has been as strongly influenced by a single Biblical passage over as
long a period as Edward Hicks. Like certain other self-taught artists, he adopted a single theme in his paintings and refined and repeated it throughout his lifetime.
His best-known paintings are probably the 62 extant versions of The Peaceable Kingdom, which depict the verses from Book of Isaiah, chapter 11,
that begin "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." Many of these paintings also depict, in the background, the legendary treaty between William Penn and the Lenape at the foundation of Pennsylvania.
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