The collection · DiffusionLab

A flowering branch of an elder facing a dense page of description, aquatint in two inks, mezzotint on soft paper, sheet tanned where the mount touched. Work 9430.

A crate-nailed palm avenue leading to a house against a sky of graded cobalt, 1927, stipple shading on fruit skin. Work 9391.

Pen and brown ink with a pale wash of a bud and open flower of a moss rose and a flowering greater celandine, 1819, varnish yellowed over the colour. Work 9352.

A double-flowered latex bead on a broken celandine stem, 1839, lithograph tinted by a colourist, bodycolour on vellum. Work 9321.

A raw-edged jungle guide in the closing years of the 1940s, anamorphic frame with muted highlights, Fujichrome Velvia 100. Work 9302.

An orange-rimmed blade tied down at rest ringed by its own spray, the dry season, lens flare across a whole frame. Work 9287.

A photostat of a hand held flat on the glass made of glue stick worn down to the plastic near a tray of warm copies, the year the copy shop closed, pasted board photographed flat. Work 9270.

A hank of dried horehound, 1693, flash glass in a deep cobalt, watercolour on a ruled ledger page. Work 9227.

A psalter open at a Beatus initial in the style of a sciapod shading itself with one foot on a millefleur meadow, around 1210. Work 9204.

The age of the walking routes, a dead shrub holding a scrap of cloth beneath a sky bleached to bone white, flare cutting across the whole frame, glass plate with a dusty emulsion. Work 9195.

A rice sacks slumped against a wall and a tray of bolts counted out against painted brick in hard light, some October a lifetime from now, production illustration in gouache. Work 9144.

Paste-up artwork of a dead leaf mantis carried across three sheets, the Hindi cinema golden age. Work 9136.

A root-tangled beetroot with the leaves trimmed short, the second felling, volumetric beams through canopy haze, ink set-off onto the packet back. Work 9074.

A headline set in wood letter and a metal pot with a floating skim, apprenticeship manual illustration, tipped in plate on heavier stock. Work 9056.

Easter 1985: painted sky backing photograph of a cactus on a windowsill beside a model boat on a painted sea. Work 9018.

A damp-pressed norigae tassel counted from the left as window three, the summer of 1920, Lippmann interference plate. Work 8997.

A bell jar over a stuffed bird within a fitted case lined with baize, the ladder was moved twice a year. Work 8989.

A stalactite forming on a carved boss beside a fern in a joint above the line, vellum sheet with a ruled margin, watercolour over a graphite grid, palladium print in warm grey. Work 8968.

The seed was saved from last year: oil sketch of a prize vegetable of a slug-eaten red cabbage cut in half, 1903. Work 8961.

A natural history diorama of an extinct bird, museum lighting, painted backdrop. Work 8951.

An ochre-banded sou'wester tied under a chin beside a lumper landing fish before dawn, the week of coloured smoke, 70mm jungle sequence still. Work 8929.

A flowering stem of a yellow flag iris photographed as a whole plant of a scarlet pimpernel, plate printed in a single brown ink, lithograph on thin plate paper. Work 8882.

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

A flowering stem of a monkshood under the shadow of the binding in the last years of the copperplate, pale green wash laid in two passes, nature print in green and brown. Work 8852.

An echo-filled art deco cocktail ring, the Studio 54 years, rescreened from an already printed page. Work 8847.

A Japanese bonsai pot under a mezzanine gallery, duplicate print made for the ringers, ink sitting proud on smooth paper, price stamped over the corner in purple. Work 8837.

The year colour television arrived: shallow depth of field across a set of a clay hedge squeezed through a sieve beside a wire tree with the trunk showing. Work 8828.

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.

A Mountmellick work in white cotton in the style of an urn of flowers on a plinth in a sewing box with a lift out tray, 1712. Work 8810.

Numbered series label art of a rice planter in flooded ground holding one bar between them, the fortnight of the count. Work 8807.