Summary

Woodcut by J. Hoey of Joseph Smith's w:First Vision first published in 1873 in T. B. H. Stenhouse's book Rocky Mountain Saints.^[1] This is the earliest known artistic depiction of the First Vision.^[2]

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1. ↑ Palfreyman, “Mormon Roots in the American Forest,” 15–16. Palfreyman identifies the woodcut in Rocky Mountain Saints as the earliest surviving First Vision image; Stenhouse, Rocky Mountain Saints 1873
2. ↑ Elise Petersen and Steven C. Harper, “Using Art and Film to Form and Reform a Collective Memory of the First Vision,” in An Eye of Faith: Essays in Honor of Richard O. Cowan, ed. Kenneth L. Alford and Richard E. Bennett (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center; Salt Lake City, 2015), 257–75.