Art, Symbol & Imagination
Belshazzar’s Feast
A banquet fills a great columned hall while a ruler gestures towards an interruption beyond the gathered guests. Tables, lamps and repeating carved surfaces make the room luxurious and densely inhabited. Doré sets the central reaction among many different responses, turning a shared feast into a moment of alarm. The caption identifies Belshazzar’s feast. The image gives the narrative’s sudden warning an architectural and social scale, showing a court whose apparent order is unsettled without removing the splendour around it.
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Gustave Doré (design). "Belshazzar’s Feast" [editorial title]. In The Bible Gallery, Gustave Dore; Talbot W. Chambers. Undated Cassell & Company edition; one hundred illustrations with supplied descriptive letterpress, undated edition, Cassell & Company, Limited. Source scan leaf 213. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/bible-dore-212
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Complete plate reviewed against the scan; printed caption supplies subject. Crop excludes surrounding paper and separate caption without changing scan tone. Letterpress theology is not adopted as historical proof.
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Gustave Doré (design). Belshazzar’s Feast. The Bible Gallery. Scan leaf 213. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/bible-dore-212