Jacob's dream of a ladder Jacob is sleeping with his head resting on a stone in a landscape. He dreams of a ladder reaching to heaven, this is beside the stone and three angels go up or down. Top of the ladder in the clouds state God. Manufacturer : printmaker Lucas Cranach (I) Dated: 1523 - 1526 Physical features: wood cut by hand colored in green, yellow, red and blue material: paper Technique: woodcut / hand color dimensions: image : h 235 mm × W 158 mmToelichtingHoutblokken used: Das Alte Testament deutsch, part I, Wittenberg 1523 (first edition), but later (in 1526) published pressing Whe
Jacob's dream of a ladder Jacob is sleeping with his head resting on a stone in a landscape. He dreams of a ladder reaching to heaven, this is beside the stone and three angels go up or down. Top of the ladder in the clouds state God. Manufacturer : printmaker Lucas Cranach (I) Dated: 1523 - 1526 Physical features: wood cut by hand colored in green, yellow, red and blue material: paper Technique: woodcut / hand color dimensions: image : h 235 mm × W 158 mmToelichtingHoutblokken used: Das Alte Testament deutsch, part I, Wittenberg 1523 (first edition), but later (in 1526) published pressing Where: were used in the logs. The series of eleven book illustrations in the collection of the RMA is blank on the reverse side, which is typical for this expenditure of Luther's Bible, see Koepplin 1974, p. 341. Subject: the dream of Jacob: while sleeping on the ground with a stone for pillow Jacob sees a ladder reaching from earth to heaven with angels going up and down; Usually with God at the top of the ladder
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