The Quaker minister and artist Edward Hicks is best known for his Peaceable Kingdom series. In the paintings, Hicks illustrated Isaiah's prophecy of God's kingdom on earth, where "Wolves and sheep will live together in peace, and leopards will lie down with young goats" (Isa. 11:6). As if to suggest the prophecy's fulfillment in America, Hicks inserts in The Peaceable Kingdom a group of Quaker leaders—including William Penn—who carry a flowing banner inscribed with lines from the book of Luke telling of the coming of the messiah. Setting his Peaceable Kingdom paintings in distinctly American landscapes, Hicks imbues the biblical message of such works with national overtones. Among the sixty-two known versions of the Peaceable Kingdom, the artist repeatedly included the theme of William Penn's 1682 treaty with the Lenni Lenape tribe. In The Peaceable Kingdom and Penn's Treaty, Hicks presents his subject in front of the awe-inspiring natural bridge in Virginia, providing an analogy between the Garden of Eden and the American wilderness.