This work by New Zealand born, Internationally acclaimed, wildlife artist Raymond Ching is a unique rendition and tribute to a fellow artist.

Edward Hicks (1780-1849) was a Quaker minister who supported his family by painting commercial signs in the Philadelphia area. He is one of the best known folk artists in the world, most notably for his 62 versions of Peaceable Kingdom paintings. By the time of his visit to Lincoln, Edward Hicks had already begun painting his famous series of Peaceable Kingdom canvases. The Peaceable Kingdom paintings depicted arrangements of animals living peacefully together. Hicks completed 62 works in this series. In each painting animals and figures are placed in iconographic arrangements, with predator and prey together. In the present painting Ray Ching uses this same device, depicting hares and rabbits sleeping peacefully in the laps of their natural predator the fox.

Among the hares, rabbits and foxes Ching has transcribed the words of a sermon delivered by Edward Hicks at Goose Creek, Pennsylvania. Ching has underlined certain lines, whilst others are obscured by the paint or