beautiful painting by the english painter and poet william blake illustrating jacob's ladder in his dream and painted with golden colors colours and with small amounts of browns and blues with jacob at the bottom of the picture asleep, above him appears a circular ladder that leads upwards and diminishes in the distance, angels with wings and long flowing gowns gracefully walking on the ladder in the gold colored coloured sky with stars. delightful and decorative william blake's art work dipicting the celestial ladder is an elegant watercolor watercolour design mostly in bright golds by the famous english artist of the romantic age.