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Last Public Address of Lieutenant–General Joseph Smith Last Public Address of Lieutenant–General Joseph Smith

John Hafen (1856–1910)
Lithographic print, 1888


This painting depicts the same event as Campbell’s watercolor sketch, but it was created forty–four years after the event and has been somewhat romanticized. Behind Joseph stands his brother Hyrum, who died with him in the June 1844 attack. The artist included the finished temple in the background to locate the event in Nauvoo, even though this great symbol of the city was not finished at the time.

Gift of Eugene K. Mangum, Museum Collection