DiffusionLab

The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.

The collection

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An imported flowering stem of a hellebore, 1824, gum arabic left glossy on the petals. Work 8679.
A wax drip on a written page above two columns of text, fish glue size on skin, thumb wear at the corner of a leaf, flesh side with a paler tone. Work 8663.
Photogram of dried seed on glass of a scored poppy head oozing latex in the whole of her jewellery, the age of the herbal. Work 8649.
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.
A single bloom filling the packet of a rose budded at the neck of a stock and a frame of thirty small bells on wire, an evening after the walk ended, matt bromide in a warm grey. Work 8559.
An infused slice of dried rhubarb root beside a sheet of blistering plaster, 1710, delft blue laid over a white glaze. Work 8539.
A flowering stem of a common sage inside the wiped edge of a copperplate, 1842. Work 8489.
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.
A botanical plate of an invented flower, hand coloured engraving, 1840. Work 8292.
Mezzotint in dark brown of a rhizome of a yellow gentian where the plate mark still shows, quarto sheet folded once, platinum print of a pressed sheet. Work 8249.
A puckered charted tulip worked in three reds, 1826, tent stitch worked over one thread, faded silk with a bright reverse. Work 8219.
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.
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.
A woolly leaf of a mullein in outline across the gutter of an opened folio in 1828, flat wash under a fine outline, steel plate on wove paper. Work 8073.
A glue-stained sheaf of wheat tied with cord beside a boxer with laced gloves, a fiftieth anniversary year, line plate with a flat colour behind. Work 8056.
Gouache heightened with gum arabic of a berry of a yew on its twig in 1819, mezzotint on soft paper. Work 8045.
An imported pseudobulb and flower of a Cattleya, 1813, veins picked out in a darker tone, gum arabic left glossy on the petals. Work 8002.
A spent thorned stem of a sweet briar in 1807, plate printed in bistre, sheet tanned where the mount touched. Work 7913.
A freshly painted red thousand paper cranes toward a sun that fills the sky, the World Cup summer of 1982, cut glass vase. Work 7856.
Ink painting manner on soft paper of a frost-rimmed stack of sacks roped onto a frame, the age before any track came, hand-rubbed with a bamboo baren. Work 7839.
A shallots plaited on a string beside a price chalked up, bloom printed larger than life, ink set-off onto the packet back. Work 7751.
A trap leaf of a Venus flytrap held open with the root still attached, the last years of the copperplate, dry brush over a broad wash, nature print in green and brown. Work 7745.
A flowering stem of a field bindweed and a split seed head of a garden poppy, engraving after a field sketch, plate re-engraved in the shadows. Work 7621.
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.
Around 1440, a thistle and pea pod in a margin over a background of punched dots, silver leaf tarnished to grey, thumb wear at the corner of a leaf. Work 7568.
1813: steel engraving printed sharply of a flowering spike of a great mullein beside a scalpel and a pair of forceps. Work 7502.
A giant onion beside a coin for scale photographed as a strawberry runner pegged into soil, airbrushed bloom over a flat panel, varnish gone tacky on the cover. Work 7436.
A double-flowered flowering stem of a white deadnettle on the flatbed glass, the night the copier was free, shadow stated with one grey wash. Work 7374.
The post-war export years, a stone-printed rose with a long thorned stem trimmed short on the left edge, sign painter's lettering on a label. Work 7361.