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Painted interior of a 19th-century frontier tavern lit by sunlight through a multi-paned window on the left. In the center, Joseph Smith — a man in a dark blue frock coat with a high white collar and white cravat — sits on a wooden stool at a long oak bar, half-turned toward the viewer, holding up a glass mug filled with amber beer and a white head of foam. Behind the bar, an older man in a beige shirt, dark vest, and white apron wipes the bar with a cloth, his head bowed. To Smith's right stand a young woman in a cream bonnet and tan calico dress and a man in a wide-brim hat and brown coat, both watching him. Wooden barrels, sacks of grain, and shelves of bottles fill the back wall.

Joseph Smith Drinks a Mug of Beer at Moeser's Tavern in 1844 Nauvoo
Painted scene inside a brick distillery building. In the foreground center, Brigham Young — an older man in a black tailcoat, dark flat-brimmed hat, and white beard — gestures with one hand while walking beside a younger curly-haired man in a brown suit holding a small notebook. Two large copper stills with curving pipes rise behind them. Around the room, workers in shirtsleeves and aprons tend wooden mash tubs on a raised platform, while others load wooden crates stenciled "VALLEY TAN WHISKY — SALT LAKE CITY" onto a wagon. A sunlit street and brick storefronts are visible through an open doorway at the right.

Brigham Young Shows a Young Mark Twain His Valley Tan Whisky Distillery
Painted scene inside Carthage Jail at the moment of Joseph Smith's death. In the foreground center, Smith stands in a long dark frock coat, firing a small smoking pepperbox pistol with his left hand toward a mob bursting through the open doorway, while he grips a dark glass wine bottle in his right hand. A cloud of muzzle smoke fills the doorway, where rough-clad attackers raise rifles. Behind Smith to the right, two men struggle to open a window from which to escape.

Joseph Smith Drinks Wine and Shoots Back at the Mob in Carthage Jail Prior to His Death