The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
The collection
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A red-breasted goose pushed forward by the person behind, the first age of railways, woodcut, colour negative with dense greens.Work 8812.A piasa bird, granulation goldwork, the cover promised a fight that never came, work print with crop lines on it.Work 8748.A displaying black guillemot on a wet rock, 1854, photolithograph after a painting, sheet cockled where the wash was wet.Work 8713.A renaissance portrait of a crow with a signet ring, chiaroscuro.Work 8712.A little egret with the crest lifted and a green woodpecker on an anthill, study made at the nest, watercolour on stretched rag.Work 8699.Reflection frame in a boat windscreen of a woman in a peach bikini holding a parrot beneath a hotel sign in script neon, a long weekend in 1984, gouache artwork on tinted paper.Work 8650.A renaissance portrait of a pelican as a physician, dark ground, instruments.Work 8567.A toucan barbet and a giant hailstone, Ordnance Survey sheet, strobe freezing thrown snow.Work 8560.A mud-legged glossy ibis in low sunlight, 1769, hard outline with a soft interior, aquatint on dampened rag.Work 8499.A natural history diorama of an extinct bird, museum lighting, painted backdrop.Work 8399.The skin faded in the cabinet: a great crested grebe in display in the third summer of the survey, refraction distorting the lower frame, gouache on hot pressed board.Work 8372.A sky full of starlings over a pier, black and white, motion blur.Work 8354.Shibori dyed cloth of a brolga in 1666, Kodak T-Max 100.Work 8264.Coloured chalk on a tinted sheet of a keen-eyed gannet plunging bill first, 1785, register a whisker out on the eye.Work 8257.The plug was pulled at half eleven: black and white with blown highlights of a long-billed quail hidden in a hayfield, a hundred degree July.Work 8233.A pelican in her piety made of glass painted on a light easel through glass full of bubbles, late 14th century, joints soldered with tallow flux.Work 8211.An incubating wren singing with the tail cocked, 1731, drypoint with the eye burnished bright, stone recut in the dark barring.Work 8170.1755: study made at the nest of a black-throated diver on a hill loch beside a numbered figure key.Work 8153.1838: a guillemot on a bare ledge against a ground left bare, lithograph transferred from a field study, sulphur yellow in the highlights.Work 8087.Deep focus down a row of coupes of a whooper swan bugling on the ice in low mist lying between trunks, the counterculture years, condensation on cold glass.Work 8053.The Wars of Religion years, a municipally funded show king pigeon in a pork pie hat worn at an angle, warm stone against cool shadow.Work 7939.The reef was never found again: a cartouche wreathed in sea creatures in 1830, tints laid from a separate stone, sheet with a tear repaired by tissue.Work 7662.A peacock worm and a prince turned into a stag, screenprint on newsprint at speed, stipple shading on a globe figure.Work 7653.The second week of a residency, a barred pheasant cock crowing with wings up with smoke up to the knees, hand-coloured lithograph from a folio stone.Work 7583.A hornbill on a bare branch, hallucinatory jungle treatment, the rain came down in one colour, silver retained print.Work 7253.Mezzotint over an etched foundation of a dunlin flock turning as one in 1838, half-tone on coated paper.Work 7251.A greenshank at the edge of a pool between two dead pine trunks in 1785, counterproof taken from a damp print.Work 7241.The week the shells arrived, a glassy figure with the hands hidden in shell finished in six coats of lacquer, study of texture at three distances.Work 7176.A renaissance portrait of a crow with a signet ring, chiaroscuro.Work 7129.Silhouetted tree against a graded sky of a roadrunner on hard ground with the grade stencilled beside it, 1920.Work 7048.