A painted depiction of Joseph Smith dictating the Book of Mormon to his scribe Oliver Cowdery by lamplight in a log cabin. Smith presses his face into an upturned stovepipe hat to read words that appeared on a seer stone placed inside, a method described in first-hand accounts by Emma Smith, David Whitmer, and Martin Harris. Although the LDS Church has long preferred imagery showing Smith working directly from the gold plates, the hat-and-stone process is now formally acknowledged in the Church's own Gospel Topics essays as the primary means by which the Book of Mormon was translated.
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