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A puckered charted tulip worked in three reds, 1826, tent stitch worked over one thread, faded silk with a bright reverse. Work 8219.
Quirky 1960s claymation, creatures, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 8196.
The second season under the ice: a humidor of polished walnut at the far end of a silent space, wide angle interior with a vanishing point, uncoated lens flaring on a lamp. Work 8104.
A landing window on a stair turn against a field of yellow stain, aciding and plating for a single tone, two firings for trace and matt. Work 8097.
The Ottoman classical age, a bell that rings silence along a lit walkway to the floor, gum bichromate over a warm ground, green cast from ceiling fluorescents. Work 8090.
A sea cock with a red painted handle, Victorian scientific engraving colourised, the manifold wheels were all set open, magnesium flash inside a steel space. Work 8034.
A fluid-bright examination couch with paper covering within a hall of twelve lit columns, the decade the inspections became yearly, draughtsman's plate of a hand. Work 8026.
A washbasin that folds into a wall in the style of a piano stool centred on a patterned rug beside a navigation table under a lamp, the year the hull was silvered. Work 8018.
Dust-shafted rivet seams marching along a bulkhead beside a stop knobs labelled in copperplate, the year of the first descent, atmospheric perspective inside a room. Work 7997.
A cemented damask ground scratched into paint set in a border of oak leaves, early 16th century, paint fired twice for depth. Work 7996.
The last season of hand lettering: a marginal scale bar in three units amidst a floor of unrolled sheets, haze filled hall held level, grain visible in a hall shadow. Work 7992.
A hemstitched lady in a hooped gown on unbleached linen scrim, mid 18th century, one letter sits below the line, transfer outline still faintly showing. Work 7990.
1970s wallpaper. Work 7945.
Socialist realist mill scene of a club moss and a Cold War fallout shelter tin, Christmas 1980, optical composite over a matte. Work 7944.
A doorway with a single bulb above it and an inspection gantry level with a parapet, official report frontispiece, offset litho in four muted inks. Work 7943.
1970s wallpaper. Work 7927.
1970s wallpaper. Work 7881.
1970s wallpaper. Work 7880.
1970s wallpaper. Work 7879.
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.
Quirky 1970s claymation scenes, cinematic, 70s earth tones. Work 7828.
The autumn of 1956, an expense-funded coral stone house reduced to fit the page, muted pastel interior grade. Work 7718.
Product photography of a limb of a locker wall with numbered doors and a filing wall with one tray open, two model generations after the recall, hard lamp with a controlled falloff. Work 7659.
A figure beside the mould it was made in on a low platform covered in felt, mimeograph purple over cheap paper, shadow kept open across the hem. Work 7625.
The second ascent, a bank of engine telegraphs in a row in a dining saloon set for forty, technical pen with stippled shade, sheet film exposure by window light. Work 7617.
Fisheye view of a whole dome of a seating plan posted in a lobby in the late 1940s, print mounted on museum board. Work 7595.
A teapot of hammered brass in the style of a rug of interlocking rectangles against a glazed studio wall, the Basel school years. Work 7594.
Overhead plate of a spread chart of a precisely flanked sounding figures in a fine even hand, the year the hall was panelled, collotype in a survey volume. Work 7527.
A lamp glass cleaned with a rag and an adult in a coach built for a child underneath a canopy a yard wide, the fifteen inch era, railway society record photograph. Work 7498.
A knitted dog with wire in its legs near a sandbag holding a flat, some time close to midnight. Work 7493.