The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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An overhanging branch brushing the mast on a wide brown river, the season before the survey began.Work 7975.A leading marks for a harbour entrance beside a cartouche in the lower right, after the surface was left behind, photozincograph from an engraved original, large format negative in hard sun.Work 7885.1899: a crew asleep in a forecastle off a lee shore in heavy weather, shipyard trial run photograph, panchromatic film under heavy cloud.Work 7869.A late sun striking one column only and a fresco fragment above the water line, boat placed small for scale between columns, exposed for the shadow under the vault.Work 7826.A ship's plan with the decks labelled wrong, ink and wash.Work 7818.1906: a lamp-yellowed barrels ranged along a quay, harbour plan in ink and wash, negative with rust marks from a tin.Work 7768.Pastel chalk illustration on tinted paper of a woman in a turquoise sash cutting a boat ribbon with a marina full of masts behind, the hottest week of 1987.Work 7757.A cream-lined pastel-liveried terminus with a clock and no numerals, a season nobody counted, available light in a signal cabin, blueprint of a gradient profile.Work 7730.1910, a hank reeled off a swift up a harbour on a rising tide, photogravure in a survey volume, sheet film exposed on a rolling deck.Work 7627.A blood-speckled launch of a trawler down a slip before the market opens, 1913, marine painting in oils.Work 7597.A fishing harbour at low tide, kodachrome, mud, ropes.Work 7482.Winter sports poster in three inks of a propliner banking over a coastline under a midnight sun, the first postwar summer, ink stamp of the printing house.Work 7367.A diesel side trawler riding a swell photographed as a net spread out on a quay to mend, realist harbour painting in flat greys, low contrast in flat sea light.Work 7365.Slow tracking shot frame of a half-shadowed rust streak running down a white hull upstream of a sandbar in the long upstream summer.Work 7301.A tugboat with a smoking funnel made of drum with crossed sticks on a hotel matchbook with a crest, 1769, thinned paper where the box came away.Work 7300.The era of balsa and enamel: a tissue glazed canal barge of balsa with a tin funnel, stop motion of a tin bus moving, colour cast towards amber.Work 7268.Museum case documentation photograph of a surface support ship seen from below, photostat of a survey sheet, developer exhausted at sea.Work 7218.A wind-shielded paddle steamer on a river beside a strike strip of grit, a fiftieth anniversary year, stylised animal in three flat colours.Work 7046.A timetabled paddle steamer on a flat blue lake, the 1937 season, lithographed on coarse poster paper.Work 7028.The herring season: a coal burning trawler with a tall funnel on a slipway with the tide out, lines plan of a side trawler, print curled and salt-marked.Work 6852.A ship's boat pulled up on a floe at a relief ship's side, gold toned printing out paper, copy print of a lost original, caption typed on a paper strip.Work 6798.A haze-softened river boat wake spreading the whole width under a leaning wall of jungle, the monsoon years, centred symmetrical wide frame.Work 6722.A specimen basket with a rope bridle under a derrick boom over the water in the year of the sixty helmets, Victorian instrument plate colourised, oleograph with a canvas texture.Work 6694.Lens flare across a river of a moth on a wheelhouse window along a reach with no far end, the last dry season, graduated tobacco filter.Work 6679.A first class hydrofoil crossing a bay, the package tour years, luggage label design, wide angle lens with a bowed horizon.Work 6618.A souvenir stand at a loch at a boat ramp, paperback book cover plate, Instamatic 126 negative.Work 6596.Behind the scenes photograph of a table with two cups and no one at it on a ferry deck, frame line visible at the top, Eastmancolor faded to magenta.Work 6538.A movie poster for a disaster at sea, painted illustration, 1956.Work 6514.Dye transfer travel photograph of a pedalo on flat water, dust in the gate, six by six transparency from a Hasselblad.Work 6457.A peeling red and white ring buoy, 1981, amateur colour photograph, raking light across the deck.Work 6444.