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Belshazzar's feast--A monarch's revel and a nation's ruin--Daniel, Chapter V – Historic Reproduction

Belshazzar's feast--A monarch's revel and a nation's ruin--Daniel, Chapter V, [between 1850 and 1880] — antique engraving
Belshazzar's feast--A monarch's revel and a nation's ruin--Daniel, Chapter V, [between 1850 and 1880]. Antique engraving from the Civil War collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with Belshazzar's feast--A monarch's revel and a nation's ruin--Daniel, Chapter V, an antique engraving rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Belshazzar's feast--A monarch's revel and a nation's ruin--Daniel, Chapter V

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The subject is the moment in the Book of Daniel, chapter 5, when a disembodied hand writes on the wall of Belshazzar's banquet hall. The king had brought out the gold and silver vessels taken from the Jerusalem temple to drink from them, and the writing, "Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin," was read by Daniel as a sign that Belshazzar's kingdom was numbered and divided. The king was killed that same night, when Babylon fell. The subject drew many artists in the nineteenth century, and this color engraving, dated in its record to between 1850 and 1880, shows how the scene was reimagined for printed Bible illustrations and popular audiences of that era.

Created / published[between 1850 and 1880]
Medium1 print : engraving, color.
GenreEngravings Color 1810-1820.
SubjectsBelshazzar. Biblical events. Daniel--(Biblical figure)
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,458 × 1,151 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-216496

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