one of my early memories is of a trip to bath with my mother ... she paused near the abbey and pointed out the jacob's ladders at each side of the west front ... aged three or four i might never have noticed them or knew what they represented ... a dream carved in stone
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%27s_Ladder
it interests me now that the spanish painter ribera only clearly painted the dreamer and the dream is shown so faintly it hardly notices... how is that ?
william blake took the idea for this
image and gave it a different title ... i want, i want ... but was his meaning similar to jacob's ?
jmw turner struggled with the subject and left an unfinished painting
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-the-vision-of-jacobs-ladder-n05507
powell and pressburger's fillum, a matter of life and death, features a giant stairway to heaven which has a bureaucratic admissions office ... the dead have a long journey ...
the construction of the mechanised set was interesting ...
https://vimeo.com/277303809
there was an episode of the bbc children's television programme magic roundabout from sometime around 1970 when the character florence climbs a ladder to the stars but i haven't been able to find an image or a video so far
