The Peaceable Kingdom, by Edward Hicks, c. 1816–18
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The Peaceable Kingdom

Edward Hicks (American, 1780–1849)

c. 1816–18

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
Unframed: 47.6 x 59.7 cm (18 3/4 x 23 1/2 in.)
Culture
United States
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art, American Painting and Sculpture
Credit line
Gift of the Hanna Fund
Rights
Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed

View at the Cleveland Museum of Art

About this work

Hicks painted more than 60 versions of the Peaceable Kingdom, and this example is likely the first.