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The Peaceable Kingdom of Edward Hicks is an icon of American folk art, much admired and copied since the Pennsylvania Quaker painter finished his first version around 1820. Hicks made multiple studies of the scene based on the biblical prophecy of a future in which “the wolf shall live with the lamb; the leopard shall lie down with the kid; the calf and the lion will feed together, and a little child shall lead them” (Isa. 11:6). Hicks portrayed the first Quaker settlers making peace with the Indigenous people while harmony reigned in the animal realm.