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Jacob's Ladder
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Jacob's Ladder

1579 · engraving; paper

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Jacob lies sleeping against a stone and dreams of a ladder reaching to the heavens, along which angels ascend and descend. At the top of the ladder the tetragram as a symbol of God the Father. Below the image a reference in Latin to the Biblical text in Genesis 28.

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Credit lineJakobsladder. 1579. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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