The collection · DiffusionLab

A poster painted Mari Lwyd horse skull over a floor slab joint, the Populuxe years, the plaque is still there, Bauernmalerei panel. Work 9160.

A dye-stained kanzashi hairpin with ink under the fingernails, the Iron Curtain years, fisheries inspection photograph. Work 9150.

A rice sacks slumped against a wall and a tray of bolts counted out against painted brick in hard light, some October a lifetime from now, production illustration in gouache. Work 9144.

Around 1470: a leaded panel of fruit in a leaded surround, Swiss armorial panel in enamels, flashed glass eaten back with acid. Work 9128.

Orange label plate in vivid colour of an orange blossom with a waxy petal at the end of a long grove row, the early 1920s. Work 9125.

A trefoil leaf of a wood sorrel against a pane of window glass in the 1840s, dissection worked at twice the scale, gouache on blue-grey paper. Work 9070.

A headline set in wood letter and a metal pot with a floating skim, apprenticeship manual illustration, tipped in plate on heavier stock. Work 9056.

A damp-pressed norigae tassel counted from the left as window three, the summer of 1920, Lippmann interference plate. Work 8997.

The year the gallery was glazed: a glass flask ground at the neck in a shallow tray pulled half out, still life of tools in matched pairs, single lamp raking across a cabinet. Work 8940.

The week the moat filled: chalk-numbered lily pads across a stone tank, colour timed toward magenta haze, colour crushed to stone and haze. Work 8911.

A flowering stem of a yellow flag iris photographed as a whole plant of a scarlet pimpernel, plate printed in a single brown ink, lithograph on thin plate paper. Work 8882.

Seed specimens in labelled phials at the foot of a very tall case, the town has a bypass now. Work 8877.

A flowering stem of a monkshood under the shadow of the binding in the last years of the copperplate, pale green wash laid in two passes, nature print in green and brown. Work 8852.

A flowering stem of a self-heal and a spike of a common plantain against paper gone ivory at the edge, 1851, cyanotype of a laid-down specimen. Work 8817.

A haze-greyed silt shelf built up against a base in the long wet age, cyanotype in a deep slate blue, pigment print on cotton paper. Work 8814.

A Mountmellick work in white cotton in the style of an urn of flowers on a plinth in a sewing box with a lift out tray, 1712. Work 8810.

Zanfirico glass vase of a company-issued livery stable against a stencilled hazard band in the spring of 1941. Work 8801.

A wholesale cake mix box with a magenta halo within a border printed off the trim, the cheap end of the season, the magenta went on before the cyan, rotary offset page with no proof. Work 8754.

1863: stipple engraving finished by hand of a spray of hawthorn in full blossom on a mount with cut corners. Work 8691.

A wordless rain steaming off hot leaves, an unrecorded week, bloom around every smoke column. Work 8687.

Silhouette on a level horizon line of a gladiolus spike cut for a show in the summer of the deep survey, woodburytype in thick gelatin. Work 8681.

An imported flowering stem of a hellebore, 1824, gum arabic left glossy on the petals. Work 8679.

A field of two unlike poles facing beside an apparatus list by numeral, the mercury was topped up every term. Work 8666.

The suite came with its own telephone number: a woman with a bouquet larger than herself in the week of the gala, shot from the corridor into a suite, print with the chandelier burnt in. Work 8653.

Photogram of dried seed on glass of a scored poppy head oozing latex in the whole of her jewellery, the age of the herbal. Work 8649.

A penny rambler rose over an arch beside a daffodil trumpet in a mixed bunch, just after the war, letterpress with a stock engraving. Work 8634.

A rubricated summer pudding across the clipped concours lawn, the closing years of the 1880s, we won the contest on the last spin, outside broadcast still. Work 8614.

A single bloom filling the packet of a rose budded at the neck of a stock and a frame of thirty small bells on wire, an evening after the walk ended, matt bromide in a warm grey. Work 8559.

A seed packet sealed with a gummed flap beside a price in pence per packet in 1861, stippled shading on a root crop, flat colour litho on gummed stock. Work 8541.

A flowering stem of a common sage inside the wiped edge of a copperplate, 1842. Work 8489.