The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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Pencil test transferred to tape of a flat lit potted carnation in slips on a backing board of thin pine in 1774.Work 7356.A new this season true-to-name tuberous root of a begonia, deep in the century of the pyramid, yellow laid under an orange bloom, specular sheen on dark glass.Work 7294.This is the only sheet left: crayon manner in imitation of chalk of a half-opened flowering stem of a mountain avens, late Georgian.Work 7245.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.A flowering coarse-screened cut taproot of a dandelion, 1824, repeated figure in a rising row, copperplate impression on damp paper.Work 7220.A bulb of a wild garlic in leaf held down by two glass weights, 1847, lithograph tinted by a colourist, relief print taken from the leaf.Work 7056.A tuber cluster of a lesser celandine on unsized rag paper, 1824.Work 6924.A cut vine of a hop with fruit and a bur of a sweet chestnut split open on a page with a tissue guard, the last years of the copperplate, flower in colour and root in line.Work 6899.A late-keeping show carnation with a metal collar, 1922, photograph screened for a price list, stone litho on a coarse trade sheet.Work 6812.A spathe of a lords-and-ladies beside a genus name struck through, 1847.Work 6746.An opened seed pod of a honesty plant photographed as an unrolling crozier of a male fern, colourist's work over a weak impression, register out by a hair.Work 6683.A double exposed California poppy, the Expo 67 summer, an incident meter reading.Work 6583.The autumn of 1950: a hand me down florist wrapping a bouquet, tree preservation order photograph, brown stain from poor washing.Work 6464.Long and short stitch embroidery of a sea lily fossil beside a polo ground, Agfachrome CT 200, bounce flash off a white wall.Work 6351.A fennel umbel and a science fair in the age of the Silk Road, egg tempera.Work 5738.A hoverfly in the style of a cricket bat, mugshot lighting.Work 5669.Flowers in chemistry lab, black and white, 35mm, grain.Work 5453.A highlighter yellow sheepish wollemi pine, matchbook cover, anointed with gravy, mine shaft darkness.Work 5205.An ivy tendril in the style of a lift that goes sideways, pale sun through fog.Work 5199.Flowers in chemistry lab, buried, smudged lens.Work 5177.A sprigged doodled-on rose of Jericho, soft lighting, indoor, realistic, cinematic lighting.Work 4887.A seedling, blue sky, macro photography.Work 4845.A waxed welwitschia that weighs nothing, 1970s, sharp focus, highly detailed, cinematic composition.Work 4821.A showa era wind-battered rafflesia, till receipt, quietly furious, lenticular.Work 4817.A saffron taciturn frangipani, Anglo-Saxon brooch, the good years, texture revealing light.Work 4796.The last surviving example: a silage clamp in a mangrove swamp, darkfield micrograph.Work 4795.A staghorn fern in the style of a joint of beef, chrome reflections.Work 4782.A payne's grey jacobite squash blossom, Irving Penn still life, form 27B, monsoon light.Work 4742.A clay cordyceps up a chimney, fax transmission, archive reading room, coma aberration.Work 4739.Light leak photograph of a marram grass before colour was invented, height chart backdrop.Work 4728.