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RUSKIN AND BURNE-JONES
Chromograph drawing showing a wombat-dog in a landscape drawn by Burne-Jones and subscribed by him at the Grange, Northend, W., with an autograph letter by Collingwood presenting it to Mrs Steeves, and other related material, 1880 and 1915

The Library of the late Hugh Selbourne, M.D., Part One

25 March 2015, 11:00 GMT

London, Knightsbridge

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RUSKIN AND BURNE-JONES

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).

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