The painting detail displayed on our site is from one of Edward Hicks’ Peaceable Kingdoms.
Edward Hicks (April 14, 1780 – August 23, 1849) was an American Folk painter, a distinguished minister of the Society of Friends, and he also became a Quaker icon because of his paintings.
His most famous subject was The PeaceabIe Kingdom and he painted over 60 versions during his lifetime. We cannot determine which version we have displayed here, but are actively trying to find out in which collection, public or private, it resides so that we can officially obtain permission to use it.
We feel the image represents our efforts at Deep Conversion Communications as it embodies both a particular religious ideal of peaceful harmony as well as a general prophetic vision of a mutually beneficial Earth Community. Hicks was inspired to pursue his many renditions of The Peaceable Kingdom by the passage below from the Biblical Book of Isaiah:
“The wolf shall live with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the kid, the calf and the lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them.
The cow and the bear shall graze, their young shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. The nursing child shall play over the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put its hand on the adder’s den.
They will not hurt or destroy on all my mountain; For the earth will be full of the knowledge of [God] as the waters cover the sea.”