Mabel Dorothy Hardy, “Odin and Ferris”, 1909, Lithograph

This image is one of her three illustrations from “Myths of the Norsemen from the Eddas and Sages” written by H. A. Guerber and published by George G, Harrap and Company, London, a now defunct publisher of high quality illustrated books.

Born in 1868, Mabel Dorothy Hardy was an illustrator who was known for her popular equestrian prints. She also did a series of black and white animal illustrations for Strand Magazine which appearred in  their first issue of January 1891. Dorothy Hardy died in 1937.