A Peaceable Kingdom (1833–34), Edward Hicks
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A sign painter–turned–Quaker minister and artist, Edward Hicks painted dozens of versions of this iconic celebration of peaceful coexistence. Inspired by a Biblical passage foretelling a time when the wolf, the lamb, the leopard and the goat will live in harmony, Hicks extended the détente to Native Americans and settlers with a version of William Penn making a treaty in the background. Hicks’s pop-eyed lion and leopard don’t look convinced by the new order, but the artist’s folk-art style and hopeful ideology charm, nevertheless.—Merrily Kerr
Artwork: Courtesy Brooklyn Museum