Art, literature & history
Belshazzar's Feast
1826
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- hand-colored mixed media intaglio
- Dimensions
- sheet: 47.9 x 68.1 cm (18 7/8 x 26 13/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1978.86.5
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
John Martin. Belshazzar's Feast. John Martin; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Martin,_Belshazzar%27s_Feast,_1826,_NGA_56798.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Belshazzar's Feast — John Martin. 1826.
Medium: hand-colored mixed media intaglio.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 47.9 x 68.1 cm (18 7/8 x 26 13/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1978.86.5. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William Benedict.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.