Troll Gallery

Alberich, from The Savoy No. 8, 1896. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley

Alberich, from The Savoy No. 8, 1896. Another drawing for Das Rheingold. It has the charm of a Japanese netsuke and reminds one of an earlier drawing, The Glutton in Hell...To this consummate skill was added an imagination hitherto unknown and undreamt of in the staid, prosperous and smug later nineteenth century. Demon-ridden it may be, but we have to go back to Hieronymus Bosch to find anything comparable...Over a blank white paper come a smirking, creeping, posturing devil horde of things, groteque, weird, macabre, sinister, misgiving and alarming... Published in "The Best of Beardsley" edited by R. A. Walker, [The Bodley Head, London, 1948]

© Shirley Markham Collection/Heritage Images

Asmund bringing Home Silver and Gold. Artist: Munthe, Gerhard (1849-1929)

Asmund bringing Home Silver and Gold. Found in the collection of National Museum of Art, Oslo

© Fine Art Images

Allegory And Literature, Among Gnomes And Trolls, Asmund, Bland Tomtar Och Troll, Elf, Elves, Fairy Tale, Fine Art Images, Folklore, Gerhard 1849 1929, Gnomes, Legend, Munthe, Mythology, Norse Mythology, Norway, Oil On Canvas, Saga, Smund, Smund Fr Gdegjevar, Traditional, Troll, Trolls