Edward Hicks was an American folk painter and distinguished Christian minister of the Society of Friends. He became a notable Quaker because of his paintings.
Edward Hicks Painting the Peaceable Kingdom by Thomas Hicks, 1839
Edward Hicks, The Peaceable Kingdom (1826), National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
A Peaceable Kingdom with Quakers Bearing Banners (1829–30), Terra Foundation for American Art.
One of over 60 versions of The Peaceable Kingdom painted by Edward Hicks, c. 1833–1834. Brooklyn Museum
Noah's Ark is the boat in the Genesis flood narrative through which God spares Noah, his family, and pairs of each land animal in the world from a global deluge.
Edward Hicks
…at the Delaware, (c. 1849) The Peaceable Kingdom, circa 1834 The Residence of David Twining, (1845–1848), Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection Noah's Ark (1846), Philadelphia Museum of Art Penn's Treaty (1847), private collection The Cornell Farm (1848), National Gallery of Art Selected works and their…
Noah's Ark (1846), by the American folk painter Edward Hicks
A woodcut of Noah's Ark from Anton Koberger's German Bible
Noah's Ark by Theodore Poulakis, 1650-1692, depicting animals traveling to an ark.
Persian Miniature from Hafiz-i Abru's Majma al-tawarikh. Noah's Ark Iran (Afghanistan), Herat; Timur's son Shah Rukh (1405–1447) ordered the historian Hafiz-i Abru to write a continuation of Rashid al-Din's famous history of the world, Jami al-tawarikh. Like the Il-Khanids, the Timurids were concerned with legitimizing their right to rule, and Hafiz-i Abru's A Collection of Histories covers a period that included the time of Shah Rukh himself.