Agricola Gallery

Portrait of Julius Agricola, c1860, (c1860). Artist: John Leech

Portrait of Julius Agricola, c1860, (c1860). A caricature of Gnaeus Julius Agricola (40-93) a Roman general responsible for the Roman conquest of Britain, who became consul and governor of Britannia in 77, completing the conquest of Wales and northern England. From The Comic History of England, Volume I, by Gilbert A A'Beckett. [Bradbury, Agnew, & Co. London]

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The Argonauts finding the Golden Fleece, 1556

The Argonauts finding the Golden Fleece, a fleece placed in a spring by the Colchians to collect alluvial gold dust, 1556. Apollonius Rhodius, a Greek scholar of the 3rd century BC, wrote an epic poem, the Argonautica, which told the story of Jason and the crew of his ship, the Argo, and their quest to find the fabled Golden Fleece. From De re metallica, by Agricola (Georg Bauer). (Basel, 1556)

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Statue of Mikael Agricola, Lutheran Cathedral, Helsinki, Finland, 2011. Artist: Sheldon Marshall

Statue of Mikael Agricola, Lutheran Cathedral, Helsinki, Finland, 2011. Mikael Agricola (1510-1557) was a Finnish clergyman who was an important figure in the Protestant Reformation in his country. He was also the creator of the first set of grammatical rules for the written Finnish language. Helsinki's Lutheran Cathedral (Tuomiokirkko), also known as the Cathedral of St Nicholas, was designed by by Carl Engel and built between 1830 and 1852

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