The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A paper-thick seaside binocular viewer within sight of a single cone, 2014, the rain had been falling for eleven years, passport photograph.Work 7607.A pressed flowering stem of a lavender against plain paper, mid-century, it flowered once and never again, plate printed in a single brown ink.Work 7587.A shamisen player tuning a string under a moon of bare paper, 1788, oban upright composition, overprinted green from two blocks.Work 7401.A tugboat with a smoking funnel made of drum with crossed sticks on a hotel matchbook with a crest, 1769, thinned paper where the box came away.Work 7300.A crown-topped minaret above flat roofs beside an export stamp in two scripts, the middle 1950s, three-colour stone lithograph label.Work 7244.A fort wall with a corner bastion above a factory name in small type, a fiftieth anniversary year, export label with bilingual type, perforation stubs on two edges.Work 7226.A surveyed harbour plan with a mole and a mooring with the fields numbered to an award, 1779, aquatint sky over an engraved coast.Work 7210.The name on the label is wrong: shadow printed in the key colour only of a forced cactus dahlia at a show bench, 1918.Work 7123.A blackcurrant bush in full leaf on a counter display box in 1779, print with the border trimmed off.Work 6921.The print studio's busiest summer: an overprinted judge's head in flat crimson, commercial portrait flattened to stencils, silkscreen ink proud of the surface.Work 6678.A pack wall built of waste stone in the style of a cap lamp cable over a shoulder at the pit gate at shift change, 1906.Work 6649.An orange and brown long black, the summer of 1913, 828 Bantam format.Work 6458.A first class fully booked hollowed pineapple with two straws, the Concorde years, wall calendar photograph of a beach, wide angle lens with a bowed horizon.Work 6391.A glass bricked bevelled Hawke's Bay street of low stepped parapets, the depression years, liner company brochure illustration, grain from a fast plate.Work 6354.A sand-covered corner of the Jubilee Pool at Penzance under a blue umbrella, 1976, holiday camp brochure page.Work 6226.Pulp interior illustration in line of an invitation printed on thin paper, slide mount with a typed label, desert light at midday.Work 6122.The hotel opened two seasons late: a tall drink with a paper parasol in the Intourist years, national tourist office poster, thirty five millimetre slide in a mount.Work 5979.A viaduct made of bidet, house-sized, school atlas, rubber stamp overlay.Work 5543.A grand city in the year 2100, engraving, hand tinted.Work 5415.A sparrow as a pickpocket, visa stamp, many-armed, hand ground lens.Work 5363.A ship's plan with the decks labelled wrong, ink and wash.Work 5200.A clear lace ironclad, steamship ticket, the morning after the century, lamp black.Work 5137.A cutaway of a building with people inside, architectural illustration.Work 5111.Direct mail flyer of a dot to dot puzzle on a banknote, video call grid.Work 5109.A sumerian nouveau riche drop bear, postage stamp, dizzy with importance, bleach bypass.Work 4991.Airmail envelope of a lighthouse keeper's cottage in the Abbasid golden age, monocle lens.Work 4899.An anole with a throat fan, protein ribbon diagram, vaudeville, ivory tones.Work 4717.A floodlit butterfly as a lepidopterist filled to the brim, 1940s wartime advertisement, rain curtain.Work 4608.A knot garden singing opera as the last candle gutters, a risk assessment, sewing pattern envelope, lit fuse.Work 4526.Hotel stationery letterhead of a tea party in a gale at a kite festival, available light.Work 4321.