Hier ziet gy heugdige scholieren / Jesu Apostels besig staen (...) 1791 - 1812

This print, made by Jacobus Thompson, presents a grid of twelve scenes, each framed within a circle, rendered with delicate lines and subtle washes of color. The composition draws your eye across the page, inviting you to explore each vignette. The arrangement of these images into a grid gives structure and meaning to the work. The grid flattens the narrative and challenges traditional linear storytelling. The compartmentalization allows each scene to exist as a fragment, a signifier pointing to a larger, more complex narrative. It invites a reading of the artwork as a system of signs, where the relationships between images are as important as the content within each frame. Thompson uses the grid not merely as an organizational tool but as a means of disrupting conventional narrative structures. The use of this structure serves to deconstruct traditional notions of storytelling and invite viewers to participate actively in creating meaning from these fragmented scenes.