3783556 The Writing on the Wall by J James Tissot - Bible by Tissot, James Jacques Joseph (1836-1902) (after); (add.info.: The Writing on the Wall by J James Tissot. Illustration to Book of Daniel, 5.5 : \'In the same hour came forth four fingers of a man\'s hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king\'s palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote\'.During the feast Belshazzar of Babylon, gold and silver items are used that were removed from Solomon \'s temple in Jerusalem by his predecessor Nebuchadnezzar II. Writing appears on a wall that fortells of the fall of the Babylonian empire. JJT: French painter, 1836 - 1902. Old Testament by J James Tissot, published by de Brunhoff, New York. 1904. P. 617); Lebrecht History.