Catalogue entry
435. [N05507] The Vision of Jacob's Ladder c. 1830?
THE TATE GALLERY, LONDON (5507)
Canvas, 48 1/2 × 74 (123 × 188)
Coll. Turner Bequest 1856 (256, ‘1 (Scriptural subject [)]’ 6'2 1/2" × 4'0"; identified 1946 by chalk number on back); transferred to the Tate Gallery 1951.
Exh. R.A. 1974–5 (484).
Lit. Davies 1946, pp. 162, 190; Ziff 1980, p. 171; Shanes 1981, p. 46.
Listed in the Schedule of the Turner Bequest, no. 266, merely as ‘Scriptural Subject 6'2 1/2" × 4'0"’, but almost certainly the Vision of Jacob's Ladder, Genesis xxviii, 10–12, though Jacob is accompanied by his family and is being addressed by an angel rather than by the Lord God. Martin Davies describes this as a very early work but in fact it seems to have been worked on over a considerable period… (read more)
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