The collection · DiffusionLab

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.

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.

A thinly-printed bottle-green surface with no mark or joint on it, the patient centuries, horizon set on the lower third, varnish over the printed panel. Work 8213.

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.

A blossom-heavy frost on a grove at first light beside a melon wedge with black seeds, 1920, ten-colour stone lithography. Work 8071.

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

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.

Dark robes against pale limestone of a measure jar used for every share, medium format chrome in dust haze, gate weave during a long hold. Work 7888.

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.

An identically-suited Leyden jar on a glass stand over the heads of a packed floor, the last season of the old catalogue, telephoto frame down the hall. Work 7853.

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 hoof-printed marker of stones on a crest, the age of the loaded animal, figure rim lit by a distant lamp, grain lifting in the shadow side. Work 7771.

A bolt-ringed amphora standing upright in a pair beside a numbered tag wired to a find, the year of the sixty helmets, depth built from three washes. Work 7665.

Mosaic glazing of small coloured pieces of narcissus bulbs in a paper bag within a roundel of clear glass, cylinder blown muff glass, dot screen coarse enough to count. Work 7664.

A hygrometer with a human hair movement, the spring the keys were renumbered, wide angle held perfectly square, colour transparency of brass and glass. Work 7634.

The bell was lowered on the hour: a flowering stem of a chicory in a summer that was never recorded, haze made visible in straight beams, salt-spotted silver gelatin print. Work 7531.

A telephone transmitter with carbon granules over a faint grid still on the linen, 1849. Work 7517.

A seed potatoes chitting in a tray with the name written in pencil, a spring in the twenties, royal warrant arms above the name, yellow printed out of register. Work 7507.

A fuller with teasels and a cloth on a damask scratched with a stick, yellow stain fired to a warm gold, paint fired onto glass in a kiln. Work 7496.

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.

A new this season true-to-name tuberous root of a begonia, deep in the century of the pyramid, yellow laid under an orange bloom, specular sheen on dark glass. Work 7294.

A glass jar of dried cantharides under the shadow of a hanging bunch, 1633, oil on panel in the Dutch manner, sepia faded to a warm grey. Work 7224.

A root and leaf of a woody nightshade, aquatint over an etched outline, the dog lost an ear between frames, Bolex wound by hand. Work 6876.

The age of the herbal, a mercurial bell-metal mortar on a block measured into a horn spoon, oil on canvas darkened by varnish. Work 6797.