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The barman ran out of ice by three: society page colour photograph of an unpeopled model of a building inside a larger building, the middle term. Work 8021.
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.
Pulverised galls of the oak in a bowl in 1652, quarto leaf tipped into a ledger, fast panchromatic film at ASA 400. Work 7957.
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 lemonade bottle label printed twice with the headline shifted down one line, a run of ninety thousand, print with the magenta doing all the work, paper dust speckling a flat tint. Work 7735.
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.
Crude woodcut coloured by a reader of a collodion bottle with a brush in it, sheet browned where a shelf touched it, salt print through a thin negative. Work 7569.
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 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 foil-wrapped beetle-green corridor with handrails on both sides, a decade lit by shop windows, blueprint plate in white on blue, studio strobe through a small reflector. Work 7504.
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 ballast bag slung between two frames behind a band of curved glass, architectural perspective of an interior, letterpress with a tissue overlay. Work 7489.
A miniature forest under a bell jar, soft light, moss. Work 7459.
A hotel breakfast room before opening, tungsten light, set tables. Work 7428.
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 travel agency window full of leaflets beyond a field of tulips, the sleeper went in the spring. Work 7323.
A brine-stiffened jar of fireflies, the Sloane Ranger years, Eastmancolor print gone warm. Work 7296.
Quirky 1960s claymation scenes, cinematic, Hippies and Preppies, reproduction with the paper grain in it, scanned from a well-read copy. Work 7290.
A tubular railway poster in one typeface on a shelf of clear glass, the Basel school years, the stand was built in three days, New Typography layout. Work 7279.
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.
Cordon apples in a single row in a basket carried on one arm in 1907, soil thumbed into the margin. Work 7174.
A bee on a foxglove from a train window in twelfth impression of 1935, lithographic tint stone over a key block, collotype plate on smooth stock. Work 7150.
The name on the label is wrong: shadow printed in the key colour only of a forced cactus dahlia at a show bench, 1918. Work 7123.
A tempura, high angle over an empty plain, the salt kept the shape of the blade, grain visible in the dome shadow. Work 7050.
A cold-shocked specimen jar labelled in grease pencil in 1934, seawater spot on the emulsion, blueprint white on cyan. Work 6983.
A cereal packet from a country that never existed, product photography, 1968. Work 6897.
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.