“I always believed it was him,” says the owner of the hotly debated daguerreotype of Joseph Smith. Adds an LDS historian: “The mere possibility of its veracity reminds us that Smith was a historical figure of flesh and bones.”
Some question the daguerreotype’s provenance — its history of ownership — and why it appears so different from the familiar portraits of Smith., remains skeptical, saying it hasn’t been adequately scrutinized either historically or scientifically.
“It’s a mystery, and we’re uncomfortable with that,” Lachlan Mackay, a historian and Community of Christ apostle, said on The Tribune’s Upon seeing the tiny image, Larsen “just knew it was Joseph,” the Smith descendant said at the time. “I looked at it for an hour or so with my wife. It was an emotional moment.”“I always believed it was him,” Larsen now says. “With this new information, it is now more convincing to other people.”In 2008 and 2009, Weber workedwhich concluded that they were correctly identified when their skulls were last exhumed and reburied in 1928.
“The mouth, nose, and nasolabial folds [creases in the skin from both sides of the nose to the corner of the mouth],” he says, are the “closest matches I’ve ever seen in any purported image of Joseph.” The reversed image also aligns closely with the precise forensic reconstruction drawings of Smith created in 1995 by, an artist who has done careful work reconstructing Joseph’s likeness since the 1970s.
Contour tracing of the mouth of the painting ; the painting mouth contour overlaid on the daguerreotype mouth with the width reduced by 18% ; and the reduced-width mouth of the daguerreotype at 50% opacity overlaid on the painting . Though the width of the painting’s mouth was reduced, the height of the lips and their relative shape as seen in the daguerreotype were maintained by the artist.
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