The collection · DiffusionLab

A soot-inked paper lantern shop at dusk in 1814, carver's seal beside the title, album page with a paper hinge. Work 7526.

An ivory-armed zodiac-inlaid projection dome of perforated panels, 1923, operator at the console portrait, line engraving of a geared model. Work 7519.

A pillar rank vanishing into haze and a sealed suit kneeling at a foundation, colour graded to bone and slate, orthochromatic stock with a white sun. Work 7513.

1813: steel engraving printed sharply of a flowering spike of a great mullein beside a scalpel and a pair of forceps. Work 7502.

A stalactite-hung rope ladder against a wall of rock, the summer of the deep survey, lithographic plate from an expedition, charcoal with chalk on grey paper. Work 7500.

Lithographic version of a comic panel of a boxing glove filling the whole panel beside a thought balloon of small circles, black line laid down last of all, newsprint fibre grabbing the ink. Work 7492.

A tank hall with twelve columns lit, instructional manual illustration, the model was not on the standard list, deep black against a white wall. Work 7470.

A glinting woman serving with a ball tucked in a pocket beside a bell on the clubhouse wall, the August tournament, he broke the racket and won anyway, wire service photograph of a final. Work 7468.

The 1938 edition, a hobnailed mouse in a corn stook holding hands in a long line, woodcut with a bold black key line. Work 7465.

Photomontage with cut halftone of a caliper measuring a steel shaft in the newspaper kiosk years, ink starved at the top of a run. Work 7451.

Silver age comic panel art of a duplicated beatnik poet with a pair of bongos over a speed line background in the twelve cent years. Work 7439.

A crowd watching something out of frame, black and white, 35mm, grain. Work 7424.

Disposable camera flash at close range of a thin-aired prism train inside a spectrograph, an August with no fan, monochrome print at postcard size. Work 7418.

The bridge went in the next flood: a drowned village in the last job before the works closed, flat screenprinted portrait in loud inks, stopped to f32 for front to back focus. Work 7415.

A magician's face in flat indigo photographed as a palm leaf manuscript, opus anglicanum in split stitch, scratched negative printed anyway. Work 7405.

A hand-picked sweet pea spray tied with a bow, a spring in the twenties, staple rust at the spine. Work 7392.

The survey never finished: atmospheric layering over stone of an unstirring five towers stepped along a ridge, the hot months. Work 7386.

A skate with orange urethane wheels and a woman in leg warmers over white boots across the width of the floor, New Year 1981, diagram of a crossover in outline. Work 7385.

The week of the annual winding, a zodiac ring engraved in even degrees between two identical staircases, halftone screen from a trade circular, hand coloured engraving in pink wash. Work 7382.

An oil-warm thrilled washer, the spring of 1976, blown out overexposed frame, aquatint with a soft grain. Work 7379.

A seven-arm octopus photographed as a salon orchestra, numbered inventory plate, offset plate from a monograph. Work 7372.

A diesel side trawler riding a swell photographed as a net spread out on a quay to mend, realist harbour painting in flat greys, low contrast in flat sea light. Work 7365.

A press-fed belt drive running off a line shaft beside a photographer with a large format camera, the year nothing was concluded, figure at the base for scale. Work 7364.

The tint plate slipped in printing: a conical pendulum tracing a circle in the term after the new syllabus, filings shown as thousands of tiny strokes, photogravure on smooth etching stock. Work 7363.

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.

An inspector with a clipboard held level made of guard walking beside a moving train under a dragline boom, an unrecorded season, 65mm frame with a huge sky. Work 7359.

Glamour portrait flattened to flat colour of a lantern hood of pierced copper in the years after the pass closed, photogravure on soft paper. Work 7348.

A turntable centre bearing in the style of an induction coil with a mercury break beside a section taken on the line A-A, the year the patent lapsed. Work 7347.

A windpump turning slowly above a tank, environment study in three values, the tally came out even for once, photochemical print on a neutral base. Work 7344.

A worn-stepped figure tiny at the foot of a tower in the years of the survey, optical dupe with hazed corners, 70mm print graded for haze. Work 7331.