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Peaceable Kingdom, by Edward Hicks
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Oil on canvas of mother and children sitting among the animals. Inscriptions: [at lower right center]: Isaiah 11 Chap. 6,7,8; [on the back a label affixed to stretcher with poem composed by artist]

Credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1970 (1970.283.1) Photograph © The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Inscribed lower right center: Isaiah 11 Chap. 6, 7, 8. Hicks painted more than sixty versions of the "Peaceable Kingdom," which are variations on the Quaker theme of peace and brotherly love.

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