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Joseph Smith in a Broadcloth SuitUnknown artist Penandink on paper This work hung for a number of years in the Smith’s Mansion House in Nauvoo. It may have been an original from which many copies were made. The suggestion of landscape at the bottom and the sketchy rendering of the Nauvoo Temple were later additions, and were perhaps done by another artist. The contour lines of the figure are quite beautiful in their simplicity and vary from thin and fine to somewhat bolder and thicker. Although Sutcliffe's name is not found on this work, the drawing resembles very closely the image of Joseph in the double portrait of the brothers owned by the Wilford Wood Museum. The bend of the left leg, the grip of the hand around the staff, the position of the feet, and type and stylization of the boots recall similar traits and details in the Wood Collection work and its derivatives. Courtesy The Community of Christ Archive |