Chromograph drawing showing a wombat-dog in a landscape drawn by Burne-Jones and subscribed by him at the Grange, Northend, W., inscribed in ink below: "E. Burne-Jones Feb 16. 1880/ Artist's proof No. 1. plate destroyed"; together with a contemporaneous presentation signature: "Edward Burne-Jones/ The Grange Northend Fulham./ MDCCCLXXX", mounted on one sheet with a note of provenance on the reverse the chromograph slightly dust-stained, 120 x 185mm., the Grange, Northend, February 1880; plus an autograph letter by W.G. Collingwood, to Mrs Steeves, sending "an autograph of Burne-Jones -- written on purpose for you" with "a drawing by Burne-Jones on the chromgraph [sic] of which only two copies were taken. It represents an ideal creature which he calls a Wombat and was done for fun one evening" (23 December 1880); two further letters by Collingwood to Steeves and Mrs Steeves (undated); and an autograph letter by Lady Burne-Jones ("Georgie"), to Joan Severn, written in 1915 and looking back movingly on shared times and their long friendship: "If you and I met, tomorrow, darling, we should still laugh – even if... 'from a bosom laden with sorrow.' O what a world it is, beautiful & great in spite of this terrible outbreak of evil everywhere" (1 October 1915) Footnotes The Burne-Jones drawing is styled by Collingwood in his covering letter as a "chromgraph" (by which he presumably means a chromograph or chromagraph). The chromograph was a term loosely applied to chromolithography (clearly inapplicable here) as well as to the hectograph, a home-printing process invented by Mikhail Alisov Russia in 1869. With the hectograph (also known as a gelatin duplicator or jellygraph), a master image would be drawn with special ink and then with the aid of spirits transferred to a gelatin pad which would hold the mirror-image from which positive impressions could be taken by pressing paper against it. Clearly such a machine was being used to entertain visitors to Northend House. Wombats featured in the Rossetti menagerie at Cheyne Walk and became a staple of Burne-Jones's comic iconography. Although Collingwood identifies our beast as a wombat, it more closely resembles one of Burne-Jones's dogs (see, for example, the beast illustrated by John Christian, Edward Burne-Jones: The Hidden Humourist, 2011, p. 92). Bonhams 2015