(BYU Museum of Art, public domain)
Apparently, the young scholar Joseph Smith drew on, among others, the vast library resources shown in this painting to compose his “Book of Mormon” (including details about the microgeography of the ancient Arabian Peninsula).
From the indispensable Jeff Lindsay:
http://mormanity.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-christian-watchman-and-its.html
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