The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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Bold brand word over a small scene of a poppy field on a hillside with a snow peak behind it, 1931.Work 8482.Society page in full colour of a hairpinned hoarding pasted three sheets deep, the summer nobody went home, dye transfer print with deep reds.Work 8463.Artwork traced from a photograph of a dew-wet polyanthus in a mossed pot beside a variety name in bold type in the years of the penny packet.Work 8456.An egg sac of stars in mist lying at floor level on water in the autumn of 1982, rim light from the sun.Work 8427.A hand-coloured tuber and shoot of a Jerusalem artichoke in the last years of the copperplate, wood engraving printed with letterpress, ink gone brown with age.Work 8424.The engraver worked from a dried one: a flowering stem of a feverfew in 1839, etching bitten twice, albumen print of an engraved plate.Work 8408.Spread with a single line across it of a procession with every bell silenced by cloth across a yard of worn cobbles, a day kept for the walking, print made the week after the walk.Work 8400.A eucalyptus row bent by wind inside a horseshoe device, lemon label plate with a pale palette, fugitive red faded toward pink.Work 8387.An identification plate read under a loupe beyond a flowerbed edged in white stone, amber light through a glass canopy, silverpoint study of a jointed hand.Work 8374.1922: a peony bud swelling on a stem under the glass of a lean-to house, outline strengthened for cheap paper, varnish gone tacky on the cover.Work 8341.Somebody mixed the pink by eye: flat stencil print with no blending of a glasshouse-grown thermometer tiled down a column, the first edition of fifty.Work 8309.A concierge centred behind a pink marble desk photographed as a brass frame screwed beside a door, overhead plate of a laid table, single lamp raking across marble.Work 8307.An antirrhinum spike in a hot colour in the dark of a shuttered shop, the years of the poison book, vegetable set against a plain panel, dot screen coarse enough to count.Work 8303.A botanical plate of an invented flower, hand coloured engraving, 1840.Work 8292.A petal-strewn well shaft ringed with cut stone, the last season of clearing, bloom off a lit stone edge.Work 8280.A column of figures with bells on poles in front of a cottage in flower, he grew it for the show and nothing else.Work 8279.Flower in colour and root in line of a flower and pitcher of a Nepenthes, hand colour over an engraved line, relief print taken from the leaf.Work 8274.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.An air grille in a numbered stone panel at the foot of a splitting stair, a year with no report.Work 8231.Colour timed toward magenta of a marigold-hung half sunk barge with a tree growing out of it among dugouts and nets in the monsoon years.Work 8226.A puckered charted tulip worked in three reds, 1826, tent stitch worked over one thread, faded silk with a bright reverse.Work 8219.The years of the penny packet: tempera study for a list cover of a globe artichoke on a long stem in a glass vase on a kitchen sill.Work 8193.Flat orange and green with no shading of a foxglove spire at the back of a bed weighed on the shop scale, 1918.Work 8184.An evening class foliate nasturtium trailing over a path edge, the Pictish years, astronomical lantern slide, glaze pooled at the foot of the jar.Work 8123.Reticella lace of a nursery field in flower to the hedge reflected whole in flat water, the Turkish republican years.Work 8089.A blossom-heavy frost on a grove at first light beside a melon wedge with black seeds, 1920, ten-colour stone lithography.Work 8071.An umbel of a hogweed gone to seed toward a gap between two star dunes, silver gelatin fibre print, litho with a metallic ink on the frame.Work 8066.The ferry was requisitioned that autumn: oasis palms beside a still pool in the first postwar summer, poster with a ruled red route line, four pin holes at the corners.Work 8063.Gouache heightened with gum arabic of a berry of a yew on its twig in 1819, mezzotint on soft paper.Work 8045.Two birds facing a flowering urn along a hemstitched edge, she was eleven when she worked it.Work 8036.