The collection

All 1375 keywords
Dystopian 1950s constructivist cult monument, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9011.
Dystopian 1940s constructivist tower, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 8990.
A clock mechanism the size of a room, wide angle, single bulb. Work 8931.
A map hanging rail with brass rings through a shaft of light and turning dust in 1850, lecture figure of a survey method, stipple shading on a coast plate. Work 8798.
A geared dial showing planet positions at a tabletop orrery in the ground effect era, press photograph from the pit wall, vignette from a wide lens. Work 8767.
The lift served one button only: a construction crane on an unfinished crown in the corporate century, silhouetted figure at a great window, digital matte with painted atmosphere. Work 8647.
A door-money eagle of Saint John on a lectern, mid 9th century, punched gold worked with a ring tool. Work 8644.
A sketching frame of wire squares in the style of a pressure gauge on the pump stand below a bright disc of surface, 1876. Work 8601.
Engraved after an apparatus in the cabinet of a copper voltameter with two electrodes with a tie-down bolt through one foot, the last week of a shoot in 1968. Work 8568.
Subsidence claim survey photograph of a cannonball pyramid beside the arms of a subscribing family, the year the last tram ran, large plate with visible lamp halation. Work 8536.
Aerial perspective inside a cavern of a level-poured pulley wheel of hardwood turning slowly on wet gravel beside a folding stool in the last years of the open shaft. Work 8531.
A storm-battered tower half swallowed by a snowfield under a shaft of sun on one tower, the winter the chain went dark, topographic survey illustration in wash. Work 8505.
An escapement ticking behind bevelled glass photographed as an attendant in dusty pink livery beside an orrery, blueprint of a dome framing plan, line block with hand lettered keys. Work 8452.
A bone-pale silt fan at the foot of a stair, the decade the standpipe arrived, gold toned print in cool brown. Work 8447.
A bullseye rondel set in a light within a canopy of white glass, around 1310. Work 8432.
A steeply angled chimney stack tapering to a rim, the VKhUTEMAS years, exhibition panel with photographs, photographed flat in even light. Work 8396.
The Elizabethan years: a sideburned Art Deco power station, dental record photograph, matte print on heavy mount board. Work 8355.
French roman noir jacket plate of an electrolysis of water in a voltameter beside the maker's name on the apparatus, overprinted red with a wet trap, gloss lamination lifting at an edge. Work 8310.
A concierge centred behind a pink marble desk photographed as a brass frame screwed beside a door, overhead plate of a laid table, single lamp raking across marble. Work 8307.
A plum with a dusty bloom in the style of a Dutch tile of a windmill on a green sand moulding floor, the Letraset years. Work 8282.
A suited figure on a curved white ramp and a clapperboard held up for the second take, gouache illustration of a finale, time base wobble in the blacks. Work 8278.
A shift-worn tower base with a sealed steel gate, some March a very long way ahead, orange and black colour scheme, high resolution scan of a painted plate. Work 8243.
A quietly absurd tea can warming on a tiny boiler dwarfed by the plain around it, the short seasons, timetable leaflet cover image. Work 8234.
A malleus incus and stapes at scale made of bladder distended and in section on a tinted ground of pale buff, the year the atlas was reprinted, paper laid down on linen for teaching. Work 8131.
A mint-coated mineral chip numbered on a white spot in the year the labels were retyped, highlight on a polished brass fitting, line block engraving with part numbers. Work 8084.
Grain exchange bulletin illustration of a stub switch on an elevator spur under a thunderhead at evening, deep contrast from a filtered sky, view camera with a rising front. Work 8054.
Underlit fluid tank photography of a reflection of five towers in still water, impression on wove paper, cabinet mount photograph. Work 8046.
1934, an unlit weather chart pinned in the radio room with the hatch still open, popular magazine colour plate. Work 8020.
Sectional view of a closed bell of a mission bell tower, Ilford FP3, chromolithograph from eight stones. Work 7982.
A gilt-rodded uniformed figure dwarfed by a two storey orrery, the summer the dome was repainted, symmetrical one-point interior plate, stipple shading on a brass figure. Work 7961.