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"Peaceable Kingdom"
ca. 1830-32. Oil on canvas Hicks painted approximately sixty renditions of the messianic prophesy of Isaiah
(11:6): “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 derived his basic composition from an engraving after a
drawing by the English artist Richard Westall and then repeatedly modified it according to
his own religious and political purposes. The straw-eating lion and the ox in this version
were, for Hicks, symbolic of redemption. Folk Home More about the Exhibition About the Artists Back
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