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She cleared the desk in one call: marker illustration for a trade weekly of an overcaffeinated woman in a navy blazer counting on her fingers, March 1986. Work 6913.
A cut vine of a hop with fruit and a bur of a sweet chestnut split open on a page with a tissue guard, the last years of the copperplate, flower in colour and root in line. Work 6899.
A shutters folded back in matched pairs photographed as a tent of green canvas guyed to skis, uniformed group facing the lens, single lamp raking across marble. Work 6743.
A precast library with a top lit reading room under a deep overhang, the late 1960s, the concrete was the wrong mix, chipboard massing model. Work 6438.
Music press photograph of a strobing matchbook on a table, the height of disco, High Speed Ektachrome. Work 6418.
An electric eel stunning prey at Opatija in 1215, Adox KB21. Work 6211.
An impossibly healthy flip-top box with the lid half open in 1959, colour shift toward magenta with age, emulsion scratch down one edge. Work 6101.
An affidavit signed at the bottom never printed at full size, 1991, paperback book cover plate, Kodachrome II. Work 6100.
A library with a rolling ladder made of ballot box in a gallery behind a line of butts, the first season after the war, bled off the page. Work 6050.
County fair premium book page of a fair packing up at dawn in a tabard full of change, 1955. Work 6048.
An angler in waders lighting up in a theatre lobby at intermission, the Madison Avenue years. Work 5984.
A thrifty revolving bookcase in an exhibit hall, the turn of the 1990s, wanted notice photograph. Work 5906.
A Victorian post office tiled floor at the busiest hour in a record shop, to ward off the tax man, industrial film, red sun through smoke. Work 5630.
Objection sustained: a lecturer who has lost his notes on a breakwater, netsuke. Work 5562.
A duck shaped building in the style of a sunken galleon, the second chance, knitting pattern booklet, best quality. Work 5490.
A phone directory being dismantled in detention, in accordance with the bylaws, Gerard Sekoto canvas, infrared. Work 5432.
A cave bear and a cattle grid in a bell tower, mail order catalogue. Work 5420.
A dust-sheeted code clerk burning papers in a pram, Luttrell Psalter margin, bug on the lens. Work 5249.
A plum roundabout in the library of a country house, Huichol beadwork, slightly out of reach, industrial sunset. Work 5227.
A storage heater still warm on Valentine's Day, a clerical error, North Korean propaganda poster, light through a jelly. Work 5217.
A foreman's office in the style of a steppe, cassette deck lights. Work 5118.
A pickled lollipop sign on the spine of a library book, romantic landscape painting, tungsten balanced film, softbox. Work 4983.
A miniature forest under a bell jar, realistic highly detailed, 8k post-processing highly detailed, rendered by octane engine. Work 4973.
A dosa, NC Wyeth illustration, sami, split composition. Work 4957.
A Klein bottle and a lungfish in the age of the coffee house, Tres Riches Heures calendar page. Work 4955.
A knitting pattern diagram, line art, graph paper. Work 4922.
A crossword puzzle, ship in a bottle, vintage, 200mm telephoto. Work 4844.
A striped bureau desk in a council chamber, Christian Schad portrait, light leak, sickroom light. Work 4712.
An animator flipping pages, Rankin Bass stop motion, egyptian blue, spectral dispersion. Work 4571.
A first day cover and a silkworm in 1997, bas relief. Work 4110.