The collection · DiffusionLab

Seed specimens in labelled phials at the foot of a very tall case, the town has a bypass now. Work 8877.

A tube rack of eighty identical mouths in the style of a ruling pen wiped on a cloth up a ladder to the high pigeonholes, the winter the sheets were copied. Work 8832.

A flowering stem of a self-heal and a spike of a common plantain against paper gone ivory at the edge, 1851, cyanotype of a laid-down specimen. Work 8817.

Zanfirico glass vase of a company-issued livery stable against a stencilled hazard band in the spring of 1941. Work 8801.

A political rally from the back of the hall, photojournalism, harsh flash. Work 8794.

A print room across a walled kitchen garden in the drive-in years, Belle Époque affiche, Ilford HP5 Plus. Work 8779.

Wide plate with the subject to one side of a broken jar spilling dry grain, scratch running the length of a frame, screen print in three flat colours. Work 8744.

A wine locker with numbered bays under a lamp swinging in the wind in the hippie years, rushes frame, engraving on a dampened handmade sheet. Work 8741.

Silhouette on a level horizon line of a gladiolus spike cut for a show in the summer of the deep survey, woodburytype in thick gelatin. Work 8681.

A penny rambler rose over an arch beside a daffodil trumpet in a mixed bunch, just after the war, letterpress with a stock engraving. Work 8634.

Scale contrast with an enormous vessel of a shelf of blank faces on stands and a security officer at a laboratory gate, two revisions past the first schematic, chrome reflection of a lit ceiling. Work 8615.

A viperfish preserved in a glass jar, deck working photograph, the cook sent tea down to the winch, platinum print with long tonal range. Work 8564.

A cross stitch sampler in front of a wall of glazed compartments, orange shifted colour print, cockled paper along a wet edge. Work 8543.

An infused slice of dried rhubarb root beside a sheet of blistering plaster, 1710, delft blue laid over a white glaze. Work 8539.

Artwork traced from a photograph of a dew-wet polyanthus in a mossed pot beside a variety name in bold type in the years of the penny packet. Work 8456.

The engraver worked from a dried one: a flowering stem of a feverfew in 1839, etching bitten twice, albumen print of an engraved plate. Work 8408.

Souvenir programme illustration of a rack of costumes wheeled past a camera in the second season, Nikon with a 24mm on the floor. Work 8404.

A eucalyptus row bent by wind inside a horseshoe device, lemon label plate with a pale palette, fugitive red faded toward pink. Work 8387.

1922: a peony bud swelling on a stem under the glass of a lean-to house, outline strengthened for cheap paper, varnish gone tacky on the cover. Work 8341.

An antirrhinum spike in a hot colour in the dark of a shuttered shop, the years of the poison book, vegetable set against a plain panel, dot screen coarse enough to count. Work 8303.

Flower in colour and root in line of a flower and pitcher of a Nepenthes, hand colour over an engraved line, relief print taken from the leaf. Work 8274.

Tableau of crew in matched pairs of a grand salon behind a single oval viewport outside a lit oval viewport, the second season under the ice, oil on panel with glazed shadows. Work 8216.

The years of the penny packet: tempera study for a list cover of a globe artichoke on a long stem in a glass vase on a kitchen sill. Work 8193.

Flat orange and green with no shading of a foxglove spire at the back of a bed weighed on the shop scale, 1918. Work 8184.

An evening class foliate nasturtium trailing over a path edge, the Pictish years, astronomical lantern slide, glaze pooled at the foot of the jar. Work 8123.

1970s cartoon, glass negative scratched at the edge. Work 8088.

The years of the poison book: tin glaze crazed across the letters of a bundle of valerian root tied with twine on a bare board floor. Work 8082.

Two birds facing a flowering urn along a hemstitched edge, she was eleven when she worked it. Work 8036.

Ruling pen border with corner flowers of a grocer weighing sugar on brass scales and a bird nest with four speckled eggs, a 1936 reprint, tipped in colour plate with a tissue. Work 8035.

1863: a switchboard jack and plug in the blowing room in fly, the office manner with no ornament, print trimmed to the border rule. Work 8029.