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A groom's head in two clashing greys, portrait with the hair printed as a mass, the key was on the wrong hook, rephotographed print losing its detail. Work 9002.
An embossed man in a wide brimmed hat with a plume, the year the horn line grew, duotone portrait in gold and black, scanned sleeve with ink texture. Work 8920.
A refractory-lined coiler winding hot strip, the boom before the strike, solarised print from a lab error. Work 8907.
A Georgian coffee house photographed as a funnel with a stained mouth, Hinterglasmalerei reverse glass painting, oil glazes over a warm underpainting. Work 8850.
1898, a gold-tooled composition roller recast in a mould with a rule laid in the stick, chapel group portrait. Work 8838.
Three colour mezzotint of a half timbered house, heavy contrast under hard lamps, colour gone warm in the dupe. Work 8811.
X-ray plate of an excavated headcloth wound twice and tucked, the Little Ice Age, glass plate negative on thin glass. Work 8802.
The Schmidt years: a winceyette protractor set over a plan, cave survey photograph, salt haze across the image. Work 8787.
A piasa bird, granulation goldwork, the cover promised a fight that never came, work print with crop lines on it. Work 8748.
Cartouche in a plain neoclassical frame of a contoured camp ground laid out in rows on a plate reissued with new railways in the first survey of the county. Work 8742.
1863: stipple engraving finished by hand of a spray of hawthorn in full blossom on a mount with cut corners. Work 8691.
An imported flowering stem of a hellebore, 1824, gum arabic left glossy on the petals. Work 8679.
Carte de visite portrait of a hand-tapped jelly wobbling on a silver plate beside a scale of leagues and one of miles in the year the works opened. Work 8674.
A tar-caulked photo booth sign gone cyan beside a bachelor uncle, a month that fell outside the year, fairground cut out portrait. Work 8656.
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 kikimora, wayang beber scroll, somebody brought a flask, oil on canvas with thin glazes. Work 8632.
Study of felt and metal together of a robe dyed the red of old brick in the week the fog stayed down, square frame with the line low in it. Work 8598.
The Carolingian period: a tonsured basilisk coiled in a foliate border, Parisian atelier work of small scale, palimpsest with the first hand showing. Work 8577.
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.
Aquatint of a storm beach and a cigar box guitar, the year the pylons came, Kodak Ektar 25. Work 8548.
A renaissance portrait of a swan as a bride, oil on canvas, pearls. Work 8545.
Photograph made in one afternoon of a figure attended by two dressers in grey and a garment with its seams left on the outside, the second week of a fitting, 6x6 square frame with the figure centred. Work 8517.
A man in a purple floor jacket palms out against a wall of framed certificates, February 1989, mixed lighting frame left uncorrected, print with a caption pasted below. Work 8469.
Animal head in a laurel surround of a weaver at a floor loom across a spine strip of two colours, varnish over the printed panel, trimmed off centre on the sheet. Work 8385.
A sunset with layered orange bands, 1929, airbrushed sky over a flat ground, printer's colour bar in the margin. Work 8365.
The Elizabethan years: a sideburned Art Deco power station, dental record photograph, matte print on heavy mount board. Work 8355.
A grit-blasted doorway cut into the side of a dune, the third survey century, frame line printed slightly low. Work 8330.
Mezzotint in dark brown of a rhizome of a yellow gentian where the plate mark still shows, quarto sheet folded once, platinum print of a pressed sheet. Work 8249.
Quirky 1950s cartoon, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 8236.
Tinted ground with lights scraped out of a larynx from behind with the cartilages and pleural reflections on the chest wall, late Georgian, microfilm frame enlarged on paper. Work 8177.