Chromograph drawing showing a wombat-dog in a landscape drawn by Burne-Jones and subscribed by him at the Grange, Northend, W. 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).