The collection · DiffusionLab

Ruling pen border with corner flowers of a grocer weighing sugar on brass scales and a bird nest with four speckled eggs, a 1936 reprint, tipped in colour plate with a tissue. Work 8035.

1797: a lichen planted privet hedge of clipped flock, plate finished in nine colours, magenta creeping into the slates. Work 8009.

An imported pseudobulb and flower of a Cattleya, 1813, veins picked out in a darker tone, gum arabic left glossy on the petals. Work 8002.

The era of balsa and enamel, a tea leaf soiled scalpel with a fresh blade with glue gone shiny along one joint, documentary look at a hobby table. Work 7981.

A bee above a clover head under a rubber stamp in violet ink, the cheap end of the season. Work 7979.

A cyclorama on a bench of white marble, the first spring of the 1960s. Work 7964.

1970s wallpaper. Work 7945.

A spent thorned stem of a sweet briar in 1807, plate printed in bistre, sheet tanned where the mount touched. Work 7913.

Dark robes against pale limestone of a measure jar used for every share, medium format chrome in dust haze, gate weave during a long hold. Work 7888.

1970s wallpaper. Work 7881.

1970s wallpaper. Work 7880.

A freshly painted red thousand paper cranes toward a sun that fills the sky, the World Cup summer of 1982, cut glass vase. Work 7856.

A town square with the shops shut, kodachrome, midday, nobody. Work 7847.

Ink painting manner on soft paper of a frost-rimmed stack of sacks roped onto a frame, the age before any track came, hand-rubbed with a bamboo baren. Work 7839.

A glassware advert with a cyan flare, two-up job printed on one sheet, the press ran forty thousand before anybody said, ink on the back from a stacked pile. Work 7807.

An espalier pear on a warm wall under a hat brim in strong sun, 1914, ornamental border struck from brass rule, gloss varnish over a flat panel. Work 7788.

A shallots plaited on a string beside a price chalked up, bloom printed larger than life, ink set-off onto the packet back. Work 7751.

A trap leaf of a Venus flytrap held open with the root still attached, the last years of the copperplate, dry brush over a broad wash, nature print in green and brown. Work 7745.

A seeding flower and pod of a wild mustard beside a cut fig showing the inner flowers, 1868, lithograph on stone. Work 7710.

Wide view of a town two metres across of an order form with pencilled quantities along a trial ground in bloom, four months of evenings in 1969, off air recording of a model feature. Work 7700.

Mosaic glazing of small coloured pieces of narcissus bulbs in a paper bag within a roundel of clear glass, cylinder blown muff glass, dot screen coarse enough to count. Work 7664.

A rosary on a bedpost in an orchard in blossom in Christmas 1952, colour negative printed on matte paper. Work 7646.

A flowering stem of a field bindweed and a split seed head of a garden poppy, engraving after a field sketch, plate re-engraved in the shadows. Work 7621.

A costumed figure alone in a wide frame on a crust of yellow sulphur in a decade of quiet ground, exposure metered off warm stone. Work 7614.

Gradient held perfectly smooth of a lone traveller suspended in a field of magenta within a cataract of falling colour, the year the colours were named, fine grain stock at full saturation. Work 7609.

A rowan against a cheap flocked wallpaper in the Impressionist years, gouache race poster illustration, photograph pasted onto a flyer. Work 7608.

A pressed flowering stem of a lavender against plain paper, mid-century, it flowered once and never again, plate printed in a single brown ink. Work 7587.

The audit decade, a fountain basin with no water in it beneath a skylight grid of amber haze, emulsion mark along one edge, wide lens with distortion corrected. Work 7576.

Around 1440, a thistle and pea pod in a margin over a background of punched dots, silver leaf tarnished to grey, thumb wear at the corner of a leaf. Work 7568.

The bell was lowered on the hour: a flowering stem of a chicory in a summer that was never recorded, haze made visible in straight beams, salt-spotted silver gelatin print. Work 7531.